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Sunday 17 March 2024

Cosmic Edge-Lords








SCULLY :
No exam has been done?

The Sheriff
Uh ... No, Ma'am. Once I heard y'all was interested 
I figured we'd best leave it to 
The Experts. (Scully smiles broadly
Now, uh ... that can't be 
what it looks like, right?

MULDER
That depends on what you think 
it looks like, Sheriff Hartwell. 
Vampires have always been with Us
in ancient myths and stories 
passed down from early Man. 
(Scully stands behind Mulder, smiling, eyes wide, 
rocks from side to side, goofing around
From the Babylonian Ekimu to the Chinese Kuang-Shi 
to Motetz Dam of the Hebrews, the Mormo 
of ancient Greece and Rome* 
to the more familiar Nosferatu 
of Transylvania.

The Sheriff :
Mormo.* Yeah.

SCULLY
In short, Sheriff, no. This can't be what it looks like. 
I think what we're dealing with here is 
simply a case of some lunatic. (She chuckles
Who, uh, has watched too many Bela Lugosi movies. 
He wishes that he could transfigure himself
 into a creature of the night.

The Sheriff :
Yeah. Okay. Uh ... what she said, 
that's what I'm thinking, 
and, uh ... Yeah. 
(Scully loves being right)

MULDER
Still, that leaves us in something of a quandary 
because there are as many different 
kinds of vampires as there are 
cultures that fear them. 
(Scully yawns and covers her mouth
Some don't even subsist on blood
The Bulgarian Ubour, for example, 
eats only manure.

SCULLY: (sarcastically
Thank you.

MULDER
To The Serbs, a prime indicator 
of vampirism is red hair
(raises his hand to Scully's head
Some vampires are thought to be eternal
Others are thought to have 
a Life-span of only 40 days
(Scully's pointing at her watch, rolling her eyes, carrying on.
Sunlight kills certain vampires 
while others come and go 
as they please, Day or night.

(Scully sighs deeply from boredom).

SCULLY: 
If There's A Point, Mulder, 
please feel free to come to it.

MULDER
My Point is that We Don't know 
exactly what we're looking for. 
What kind of vampire, or if you prefer
what kind of vampire this killer 
wishes himself to be.

(Mulder notices the untied shoes on the corpse 
and stands with his head between his feet)



SCENE 19 
TODAY X FILES OFFICE

SCULLY
Now, why is it so important 
that his shoes were untied?

MULDER
I'm getting to it.

CEMETERY - DAY
MULDER VOICE OVER
So, while You stayed behind to do The Autopsy
The Sheriff drove me to the town cemetery.

(Hartwell opens the gate and they walk through. 
This cemetery is certainly not off the beaten path, 
the creepier the better)

The Sheriff :
Agent Mulder, you mind me 
asking you why we're out here?

MULDER: 
Historically, cemeteries were thought to be 
a haven for vampires, as are castles
catacombs and swamps
but unfortunately, you don't 
have any of those.

The Sheriff :
We used to have swamps only 
The EPA made us take to 
calling them ‘wetlands’.

MULDER: 
Yeah. So, we're out here looking 
for any signs of vampiric activity.

The Sheriff :
Which would be like, uh...?

MULDER: 
Broken or shifted tombstones. 
The absence of birds singing.

The Sheriff :
There you go. Cuz I ain't hearing any birds singing. 
Right? Course, it's winter, and We ain't 
got no birds. Is there anything else?

Mulder : 
A faint groaning coming from under the earth. 
The sound of manducation -- of the creature 
eating its own death shroud.

The Sheriff :
Nope. No manuh... ma-ma...

MULDER: 
Manducation.

The Sheriff :
Manducation. No.

MULDER: 
Now, Sheriff, I know my methods 
may seem a little odd to you, but..

The Sheriff :
Hey, look, y'all work for the federal 
guv'mint and that's all I need to know. 
I mean, CIA, Secret Service --
-- y'all run the show, so --

MULDER
It's just that my gut instinct tells me 
that the killer will visit this place. 
That it may well hold some fascination -- 
some kind of siren call for him, you know. 
(A horn honks)

RONNIE: 
Howdy, Sheriff.
(The teen delivery boy is in a red car on the street, a Gremlin)

The Sheriff :
Oh, hey, Ronnie. How's it going?

RONNIE: 
Can't complain.

The Sheriff : 
Well, all right, then. 
(Ronnie drives off)

MULDER: 
Maybe after nightfall, Sheriff, 
but he'll come. Oh, he'll come.

(we watch the car drive off down the road)



SCENE 20 
CEMETERY - NIGHT
(Mulder looking around with his flashlight)
MULDER VOICE OVER
So, we staked out the cemetery.



SCENE 21 
TODAY X FILES OFFICE

SCULLY
Mulder, shoelaces?

MULDER
Hmm?

SCULLY
On The Corpse. You were going to tell me 
what was Meaningful about 
finding untied shoelaces.

MULDER
I'm getting to it.



SCENE 22 
CEMETERY - NIGHT
(Mulder is spreading sunflower seeds around 
the cemetery, he gets into Sheriff's car)

MULDER: 
Sunflower seed? 
(He accidentally drops some) Sorry.

The Sheriff :
No, thanks. Do you mind ... (he picks up a seed that fell 
from Mulder's bag and tosses it) Do you mind 
me asking you what you were ...

MULDER
Historically, certain types of seeds 
were thought to fascinate vampires. 
Chiefly oats and millet, but you 
make-do with what you have
Remember when I said before 
that we didn't know what type of 
vampire we were looking for?


The Sheriff : 
Yeah.

MULDER
Well, oddly enough, there seems 
to be one obscure fact which 
in all the stories told 
by the different cultures 
is exactly the same, and that's 
that vampires are really
really obsessive-compulsive. 

Yeah, you toss a handful of seeds 
at one, no matter what he's doing 
he's got to stop and pick it up
If he sees a knotted rope
he's got to untie it. 
It's in His Nature

In fact, that's why,
I'm guessing that our victim's 
shoelaces were untied.

The Sheriff : 
Yeah, obsessive... Like Rain Man. (Mulder nods
It's like when that old boy dropped them matchsticks, 
he had to pick them all up. 
Same thing, right?

MULDER
Well, he didn't actually 
pick them up. 
He counted them.

The Sheriff : 
Oh, yeah. 247
Right off the top of your head.

MULDER
Well, if he had picked them up,
he would have been 


The Sheriff :
Yeah. I'll tell you what. 
I know I'm in Law-enforcement
but I'd like to take him 
to Vegas myself
Am I right?

MULDER
Well, that would be illegal, right?

The Sheriff :
He's like a little calculator.

MULDER
Yeah.




EndNotes :

* : “Mormu. Yeah.” Is The Sherrif answering The Question implicit in Mulder’s colloray, qualifying his response to The Sherriff own initial Question…? 

This Line of Enquiry, more fully-explored by way 
of being Gamed-out via Free-Play would, 
thereforerun as follows :

Friday 22 February 2019

Dark Babylonian Aspect







Angelus,
The Other Angel :
Hey Dawn — Yeah, it’s Me.
Is Your Sister Home...?
She is...?

The Angelus hangs up the phone, scowling with irritability

It’s The Other One .....







Hail, Lord Someone Else !!!

All Hail The Dark Overlords of The Universe !!!













WESLEY
A lot's happened. Not just Angelus. 


I've been—I've changed. 

I've seen a Darkness in Myself. 

I'm not sure you'd even begin to understand —

WILLOW
I Flayed a Guy Alive 

and 

Tried to Destroy The World.

[ Who Hasn’t? ]


WESLEY
Oh. So... 

(stands, doesn't make eye-contact

WILLOW
Darkness
Been There.

WESLEY
Yeah. Well, I never flayed... 
(seems sickened)  

I had a woman chained in a closet.

Dude?!? Seriously...?

NOT-Cool...

I Bet You Didn’t Even Think to Put a Bucket in There with Her....

Monday 22 May 2017

SMITE

“This Man is Here because He Does Not want to Die

He Believes You can give Him more Life.”

In the deleted scenes, the comment 
that sets him off and turns him murderous, is :
This Man standing here before You - 
My Company made him out of nothing!”



Peter Weyland is an IDOLOTER
He has profaned Life by producing a parody of it in Silicon form, an Abomination,
bereft of any hint of 
Soul, SuperEgo or Conscience.

“Are You a God..?”


*shrugs
“No...”

“Then - DIE!!!”



**SMITE**

Wednesday 5 April 2017

Zuul

THERE IS NO DANA ONLY ZUUL


"The Babylonians have one most shameful custom. Every woman born in the country must once in her life go and sit down in the precinct of Venus, and there consort with a stranger. Many of the wealthier sort, who are too proud to mix with the others, drive in covered carriages to the precinct, followed by a goodly train of attendants, and there take their station. But the larger number seat themselves within the holy enclosure with wreaths of string about their heads- and here there is always a great crowd, some coming and others going; lines of cord mark out paths in all directions the women, and the strangers pass along them to make their choice. A woman who has once taken her seat is not allowed to return home till one of the strangers throws a silver coin into her lap, and takes her with him beyond the holy ground. When he throws the coin he says these words- "The goddess Mylitta prosper thee." (Venus is called Mylitta by the Assyrians.) The silver coin may be of any size; it cannot be refused, for that is forbidden by the law, since once thrown it is sacred. The woman goes with the first man who throws her money, and rejects no one. When she has gone with him, and so satisfied the goddess, she returns home, and from that time forth no gift however great will prevail with her. Such of the women as are tall and beautiful are soon released, but others who are ugly have to stay a long time before they can fulfil the law. Some have waited three or four years in the precinct.[*] A custom very much like this is found also in certain parts of the island of Cyprus.

Such are the customs of the Babylonians generally. There are likewise three tribes among them who eat nothing but fish. These are caught and dried in the sun, after which they are brayed in a mortar, and strained through a linen sieve. Some prefer to make cakes of this material, while others bake it into a kind of bread."

* This unhallowed custom is mentioned among the abominations of thereligion of the Babylonians ** in the book of Baruch (vi. 43).


** Sumerian, Not Babylonian.



Did Prostitution Really Exist in the Temples of Antiquity?

"Holy harlots" in Jerusalem, temple sex in the service of Aphrodite? Many ancient authors describe sacred prostitution in drastic terms. Are the accounts nothing but legends? Historians are searching for the kernel of truth behind the reports.

Matthias Schulz
Sex in the Service of Aphrodite


Corbis

Friday, 3/26/2010   03:13 PM 

The "ugliest custom" in Babylon, the historian Herodotus wrote (who is believed to have lived between circa 490 to 425 B.C.), was the widespread practice of prostitution in the Temple of Ishtar. Once in their lifetimes, all women in the country were required to sit in the temple and "expose themselves to a stranger" in return for money.

"Rich and haughty" women, the ancient Greek historian railed, arrived in "covered chariots."

The Persians on the Black Sea were apparently involved in similarly nefarious activities. According to the Greek geographer Strabo, "virgin daughters," hardly 12 years old, were dedicated to cult prostitution. "They treat their lovers with such friendliness that they even entertain them."

There are many such reports from classical antiquity. Tribes from Sicily to Thebes are believed to have indulged in perverse religious customs.

The Jews were also involved in such practices. There are about a dozen passages in the Old Testament that revolve around "Qadeshes," a word for female and male cult practitioners. The Bible calls them "lemans" and "catamites." In the Fifth Book of Moses, male prostitutes are prohibited from donating their "dogs' money" to the House of Yahweh.

Twentieth-century researchers eagerly seized on the references, which were often mysterious. Soon it was considered a fact that priests in the Eastern World performed forced defloration. It was said that there was "dowry prostitution" and "sexual copulation at the cult site."

Temple sex, according to the "Encyclopedia of Theology and the Church," was a "moral and hygienic plague spot on the body of the people."

But is this true? More and more academics are now questioning the erotic fables of the ancients.

Were Erotic Tales Exaggerated?

Newly discovered cuneiform tablets paint a more defused picture, and it is becoming increasingly clear that the academics of earlier decades exaggerated the subject. For example, there is not a single piece of evidence proving that the ritual of forced defloration existed.

A fraction of female gender researchers take a more radical view. They dispute holy prostitution altogether, calling the whole thing a pack of lies.

According to a new book on the subject, it all began when a few Greek writers concocted defamatory, dirty customs about foreign peoples, as evidence of their moral "damnability." In the modern age, the author writes, this filth developed into a "research myth."

Julia Assante, an American scholar of the ancient Orient and the leader of the movement, is convinced that sacred whores are merely products of "male fantasy."

But for moderate scholars, this interpretation goes too far. Although they also question some of the overblown academic opinions of the past, they insist that the phenomenon existed. They believe that there were once:

Temples that operated brothels on the side; 
Temples in which girls held the highest offices of the priesthood, even before their first menstruation; 
Professional harlots who donated their own money to cult sites, such as a site devoted to the goddess "Aphrodite Porne."
A bitter debate is unfolding, as Assyriologists with feminist leanings squabble with old-school professors. While the former consistently denounce the theories of temple prostitution as nothing but lies, the latter, citing Sumerian grammar, seek to defend their supposedly "patriarchal perspective."

Street Prostitution in Ancient Times

There is, however, agreement on the subject of ordinary street prostitution in ancient times. Wearing garish makeup and yellow shawls, the whores of Athens advertised their charms at the foot of the Acropolis. Special "flute girls" offered to play the aulos for their customers before boldly getting down to business.

Rome's street prostitutes charged four aces (the equivalent of about €10, or $14). Messalina, a famous call girl, became empress when she married the Emperor Claudius.

Page 2 of 3
Sex in the Service of Aphrodite

Part 2: Mesopotamia Was Particularly Known for its Loose Morals


Corbis

Friday, 3/26/2010   03:13 PM 

The pious land of the Pyramids also offered sinful pleasures. Its prostitutes rubbed ointment onto their customers' bodies. "Your phallus is in the Chenemet women," an ancient papyrus text reads. "A man can copulate better than a donkey. It is only his purse that holds him back."

Mesopotamia was particularly known for its loose morals. A whore named Shamhat ("The Voluptuous One"), who appears in the Gilgamesh epic, beguiles the wild man Enkidu: "She unclutched her bosom, exposed her sex, and he took in her voluptuousness."

There were few objections to the profession in the Euphrates Valley. A clay tablet tells the story of a young woman who receives her customers in the house of her parents. She was paid with the meat of a piglet.

The Whore of Babylon

But what happened at the holy sites? What happened behind the walls of the Temple of Ishtar? This is a source of contention among scholars.

The Orient devoted enormous buildings to its goddess of sex and love. Hymns praised her as a "Mistress of Women" with "seductive charms." "In lips she is sweet; life is in her mouth" -- Whore of Babylon.

The Ishtar cult soon spread to the north, first to Cyprus, where Greek settlers came into contact with the goddess and renamed her Aphrodite. According to Greek myth, the beautiful Aphrodite rose from a bloody spot in the sea, where the water was colored red and full of sperm. It was the spot where Cronos, the ruler of the Titans, had thrown his father's severed genitalia into the sea.

The goddess, "born of the sea foam," was never innocent, but filled with lust and an orgy of the senses. In Uruk, an orgiastic Carneval-like festival was celebrated in her honor 5,000 years ago. Ancient lists show that female dancers and actresses worked in the Temple of Ishtar.

No Signs of Sex Acts at the Altar

Nevertheless, there are no signs that sex acts and fertility rites took place directly at the altar, as scholars once claimed. "There is no evidence whatsoever of such magical practices," explains Gernot Wilhelm, an Orientalist at Julis Maximilian University in Würzburg, Germany.

Did Herodotus invent his story of forced sex among the women of Babylon? Gender researchers think so.

Nevertheless, there is probably more to the story than meets the eye. The temple of the sex goddess also included a special cult personnel, the "Harimtu," or "prostitutes."

Some time ago, Wilhelm discovered a fascinating legal document. It is about 3,300 years old, and it recounts how a man delivered his own daughter to the Temple of Ishtar to serve as a Harimtu.

According to the document, the man wanted a loan from the priests and was offering his daughter as collateral.

But what exactly did the pawned daughter do for her new employers? Wilhelm speculates that the young girl worked as a prostitute, "but outside the temple."

As evidence, the professor cites the "Book of Baruch" in the Old Testament. It describes prostitutes standing "along the paths" between the dusty houses of Babylon. They too were somehow associated with a sacred organization.

An Academic Dispute

The skeptics are having none of it. Harimtu doesn't mean prostitute, says gender studies scholar Assante. She claims that Assyriologists simply translated the word incorrectly for 150 years.

Instead, says Assante, the word refers to a "single woman," who served as a cultish official and was not part of a male household.

Assante's adversaries cringe at her interpretation, accusing Assante of transferring her own social status into the pre-Christian era.

Her reinterpretation of the word Harimtu doesn't make semantic sense, says economic historian Morris Silver. He insists that the Harimtu were clearly "professional prostitutes with cultic connections," who offered a "sexual service" on behalf of the temple. Priests acted as pimps and collected some of the profits.

These sacred brothels probably also existed in Greece, specifically, as scholars believe, at the Temple of Aphrodite in Corinth. It was perched on a rocky promontory 575 meters (1,890 feet) above the sea.

Sex Workers, Flimsy Dresses, Garish Makeup

It is indisputable that the city itself was a raucous place. Corinth was a hub of maritime trade, with hundreds of ships docked at its jetties. Sex workers, wearing flimsy dresses and garish makeup, were lined up along the docks to offer their charms.

But the temple to the goddess of love, high up on the cliff, also appears to have been a hub of sexual activity. "The Temple of Aphrodite was so rich that it owned more than a thousand temple slaves, courtesans," Strabo writes.

Hordes of sailors and sea captains, "hungry for sex," clambered up to the cliff temple, says British academic Nigel Spivey.

Tanja Scheer, a professor of ancient history at the University of Oldenburg in northern Germany, now proposes a better solution: "The reports of a sacred brothel in Corinth are all based on an ode by Pindar," she explains. Pindar writes that a wealthy Olympic champion dedicated the temple to a "hundred-limbed" throng of prostitutes in 464 B.C.

But, as Scheer points out, it is unlikely that the prostitutes lounged directly at the altar. Instead, she says, the wealthy athlete probably offered the temple financial assistance in the form of female slaves. "The proceeds from the sale of their bodies could serve as a regular and ongoing source of income for the temple."

Scheer's theory is supported by the fact that the Athenian statesman Solon, who established government houses of pleasure in Athens around 590 B.C., imposed taxes on the prostitutes. The city used the revenues to build a temple to the goddess of love.

As a fragment from an old comedy reveals, very young girls apparently lived in the brothel. The text describes the "foals" of Aphrodite standing naked in a line," and notes: "From them, constantly and securely, you may purchase your pleasure for a little coin."

It is also possible that things were even worse for child prostitutes in the ancient world. Some scholars speculate that there may have been sacred sex between children.

Again, the trail leads to Babylon and its 91-meter, pyramid-shaped tower, one of the wonders of the ancient world. According to some sources, there was a shrine at the top of the tower that contained a bed, where a chosen girl slept at night, constantly prepared for a "sacred wedding" -- the symbolic sex act with the god Marduk.

Child Abuse on the Nile?

Farther afield, in the main temple of Thebes, in the land of the Pharaohs, there was a "godly consort of Amun."

This priesthood was occupied by "a maiden of greatest beauty and most illustrious family," Strabo writes, "and she prostitutes herself, and cohabits with whatever men she wishes until the natural cleansing of her body takes place" (menstruation).

Child abuse on the Nile? There are many historical clues that have led to speculation among academics, particularly now that a new document has fueled the debate even further.

It is a worn fragment of an Egyptian scroll, which also addresses the subject of young priestesses.

According to the text, girls are permitted to work in the temple until their first menstruation. After that, however, "they are cast out from their duties."

Translated from the German by Christopher Sultan





Monday 1 August 2016

Hillary - TALK 2 RUSSIA

"I will not sacrifice the Black Sea Fleet. 



We've made too many compromises already. 
Too many retreats. 




They reunify Germany, and we fall back. 




They assimilate entire Warsaw Pact nations, and we fall back. 




Not again! 

The line must be drawn here... 


THIS far, 
NO further! 








Hillary, talk to Russia before it's too late


Before it's too late, before it's too late

Hillary, talk to Russia before it's too late
Before They blow up The World



You can go to the zoo, but u don't feed guerrillas


U can't feed guerrillas, left wing guerrillas

Go to the zoo, but don't feed guerrillas
Who wanna blow up the world

Oh yes, baby

Hillary, if you're dead before I get to meet ya
Before I get to meet ya, before I get to meet ya


Hillary, if you're dead before I get to meet ya


Don't say I didn't warn ya



Hillary, talk to Russia before it's too late


Before it's too late, before it's too late


Hillary, talk to Russia before it's too late


Before They blow up the world

Before They blow up The World





(Don't blow up my world)





Don't you blow up my world



by James Corbett
grtv.ca
July 24, 2016
Hillary Rodham Clinton is a Wall Street-backed warmonger whose potential election as President of the United States this November poses an existential threat not just to Americans but to all of humanity.
As First Lady and then as Senator, she actively supported the US’ illegal wars of aggression abroad:
BILL CLINTON: “Today, our Armed Forces joined our NATO allies in airstrikes against Serbian forces ,esponsible for the brutality in Kosovo.”
HILLARY CLINTON: “You know I voted for the Iraqi resolution.”
CLINTON: “The President understands this. He’s fully aware that it’s going to take a lot of patience and pain-staking planning and we’re gonna support him!”
CLINTON: “…including thousands of chemical weapons. Large volumes of chemical and biological stocks. A number of missiles and warheads. A major lab equipped to produce Anthrax.”
She not only admitted the US role in creating Al Qaeda:
CLINTON: “When the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, we had this brilliant idea there we were going to come to Pakistan and create a force of Mujahideen, equip them with Stinger missiles and everything else, to go after the Soviets inside Afghanistan.”
But then, despite this admission, as Secretary of State her support of the war on Libya and the jihadis in Syria directly led to the rise of ISIS and the migrant crisis in Europe:
CLINTON: “The transition to democracy in Syria has begun and it’s time for Assad to get out of the way.”
“President Assad is not indispensable and we have absolutely nothing invested in him remaining in power.”
“I think based on definitions of war-criminal and crimes against humanity, there would be an argument to be made that he (Assad) would fit into that category.”
CLINTON: “Libya was a different kind of calculation and we didn’t lose a single person.”
CLINTON: “We came. We saw. He died! (laughter)”
She was the one who announced the US’ so-called “Asia-Pacific Pivot” that has seen more US forces being placed in the Asia-Pacific as a direct military threat to China:
CLINTON: “…and we look to the Asia-Pacific region, as we have for many decades, as an area where the United States in uniquely positioned to play a major role.”
CLINTON: “The United States is not seeding the Pacific to anyone.”
And she has stated in no uncertain terms that Russia and Iran will be militarily targeted in a Clinton presidency, and that the “nuclear option” is, as always, “on the table”:
CLINTON: “And we will make sure the Iranians and the world understand, that the United States will act decisively if necessary including taking military action.”
“There will have to be consequences for any violation by Iran and that the nuclear option should not at all be taken of the table. That has been my position consistently.”
CLINTON: “And Russia has to support the international community’s efforts sincerely or be held to account.”
CLINTON: “That Russia and China will pay a price. Because they are holding up progress, blockading it. That is no longer tolerable.”
And unlike her many, many political statements of convenience that are merely a reflection of what is most politically acceptable at the moment:
CHRIS MATTHEWS: Do you think New York State should recognize gay marriage?”
HILLARY CLINTON: “No.”
CHRIS MATTHEWS: “No … OK.”
CLINTON: “I support marriage for lesbian and gay couples.”
CLINTON: “I represented Wall Street as a Senator from New York and I went to Wall Street and in December of 2007 before the big crash that we had. And I basically said ‘cut it out, quit foreclosing on homes. Quit engaging in these kinds of speculative behaviors.'”
“Now who’s exactly the blame for the housing crisis? Now I think there’s plenty of blame to go around. Home-buyers who paid extra fees to avoid documenting their income, should of known that they were getting in over their heads.”
“I take a back-seat to no one when you look at my record on standing up and fighting for progressive values.”
“I get accused of being kind of moderate and center. I plead guilty.”
HILLARY CLINTON: “We went through a thorough process to identify all of my work-related emails.”
JAMES COMEY: “Lawyers doing the sorting for Secretary Clinton in 2014 did not individually read the content of all of her emails.”
CLINTON: “So that the emails were immediately captured and preserved.”
COMEY: “There was no archiving at all of her emails.”
…we can be assured that these threats of potential nuclear world war by Clinton are not idle threats. A future Clinton president would be assured of a like mind in the new Prime Minister in the UK, who has stated in no uncertain terms that she is willing to launch a nuclear strike that would kill hundreds of thousands:
GEORGE KEREVAN: “Let me congratulate the Prime Minster on her new rule, but can we cut to the chase? Is she personally prepared to authorize a nuclear-strike that could kill 100,000 innocent men, women and children?”
THERESA MAY: “Yes. And I have to say to the honourable gentleman, the whole point of a deterrent is that our enemies need to know that we would be prepared to use it.”
Hillary Clinton is a neocon, a war hawk, a liar, an unindicted criminal and a Wall Street puppet. Why is it, then, that those on the so-called “progressive” left who would be warning against her if she had an “R” next to her name are instead lecturing other leftists that it is now their duty to fall in line and help her get elected?
NOAM CHOMSKY: “If Clinton is nominated and it comes to a choice between Clinton and Trump, in a swing state, a state where it’s going to matter which way you vote, I would vote against Trump, and by elementary arithmetic, that means you hold your nose and you vote Democrat. I don’t think there’s any other rational choice. Abstaining from voting or, say, voting for, say, a candidate you prefer, a minority candidate, just amounts to a vote for Donald Trump, which I think is a devastating prospect, for reasons I’ve already mentioned.”
JUAN GONZALES: “We in SDS refused to vote. We wouldn’t support McCarthy. We wouldn’t support Humphrey. Our slogan was “Vote with your feet, vote in the street.” I’m—I’m here to tell you that the slogan was right, the tactic was wrong. And I think that the country, in retrospect, there would not have been a substantive change, there would have been a positive change, if Nixon had not been elected. But you learn from your mistakes. Hopefully, other generations learn from the mistakes of those who came before them.”
ELIZABETH WARREN: We’re all here today because we’re with her. And we’re going to work our hearts out to make Hillary Clinton the next president of the United States.
BERNIE SANDERS: “She will be the Democratic nominee for president, and I intend to do everything I can to make certain she will be the next president of the United States.”
The message here is as clear as it is predictable and disappointing. Once again those with the influence to shape these events and ignite a genuine protest movement against Hillary’s coronation at the Democratic National Convention are falling back into their roles as partisan ideologues, advocating for “their” candidate over the “other side,” taking the two-party system as a fait accomplis and complicity with that system as the only way forward.
But as Michel Chossudovsky of GlobalResearch.ca points out, this election is fundamentally different. This time, the fate of the world hangs in the balance.
MICHEL CHOSSUDOVSKY: “In so many words Hillary Clinton’s foreign policy stance is ‘to blow up the planet.’ She has made statements to the effect that a first-strike nuclear attack against Russia or Iran is on the table. So that if she is in the White House she could in fact unleash the unspoken, which is World War 3. I think this is something we have to address both in terms of analysis and also political choice. That anyone who wants to blow up the planet is not ‘progressive.’
“Secondly, she has a criminal record. Not only in regards to the email scandal but also in relation to The Clinton Foundation, which is involved in fraud, money laundering, political cronyism, etc. It is amply documented.
“So that, in effect, the choice for the American people is to elect a war-criminal.”
Too many people become attached to the personality of these political personas or fixated on the “D” or the “R” after their name. This clouds their judgement and stops them from seeing their policies and agenda for what they really are.
As Diana Johnstone, author of Queen of Chaos: The Misadventures of Hillary Clinton points out, Hillary is best understood not as a person, but as the instrument for the think tanks, Wall Street financiers and other connected insiders who want to embroil the United States in more illegal wars and plunder the country and its people even further.
DIANA JOHNSTONE: “I mean Hillary to me is not even an interesting person. She is simply a shallow, ambitious woman. Who has decided to make herself the instrument of the Washington think-tank persuasion and is using that too pose as a great expert on world affairs to be elected as President. She simply is the embodiment of all that is terrible in American foreign-policy that has developed over the past decades.”
It is no hyperbole to say that the election of Hillary Rodham Clinton as president this November would be one of the greatest tragedies in the history of the United States, and perhaps the world. It is incumbent on people of all stripes–American and non-American, Republican and Democrat, progressive and libertarian, anarchists, and those who have never thought about politics a day in their life–to protest her nomination at the Democratic National Convention, work against her campaign for President, and avert the nuclear nightmare that is now coming into view.