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slimmouse » Thu Sep 05, 2013 4:04 pm wrote:American Dream » 05 Sep 2013 20:57 wrote:slimmouse » Thu Sep 05, 2013 3:54 pm wrote:I havent even read it because there is little doubt ive been grappling with this kind of stuff since the day you arrived here.
I want some recent criticism of Icke. I would really like you to watch some recent videos, or read a recent book, or listen to a recent radio broadcast.
Lets see if you find the same kind of copy pasta information about Icke that has probably been boring this board more recently.
Lets hear it from you AD.
I might not agree with you, but at least I will truly respect that.
The material you are avoiding is from May 28th of this year. Why don't you want to grapple with the specifics?
And the quotes and imagery contained within are from where and when? There Ive grappled with it.
Coerced Collectivization
Despite a communist push for collectivization, Ukraine's farms had mostly remained private — the foundation of their success. But in 1929, the Central Committee of the Soviet Union's Communist Party decided to embark on a program of total collectivization. Private farms were to be completely replaced by collectives — in Ukraine known as kolkhozes. This was, of course, consistent with Marxist ideology: the Communist Manifesto had called for abolition of private property.
Intense pressure was placed upon Ukrainian peasants to join the kolkhozes. Twenty-five thousand fanatical young communists from the USSR's cities were sent to Ukraine to compel the transition. These became known as the Twenty-Five Thousanders; each was assigned a particular locality, and was accompanied by a weapons-bearing communist entourage, including members of the GPU (secret police, forerunner of the KGB). A communist commission was established in each village.
Holodomor survivor Miron Dolot, in his book Execution by Hunger, describes what happened soon after a commission was started in his village by its Twenty-Five Thousander, Comrade Zeitlin:
We did not have to wait too long for Comrade Zeitlin's strategy to reveal itself. The first incident occurred very early on a cold January morning in 1930 while people in our village were still asleep. Fifteen villagers were arrested, and someone said that the Checkists [GPU] had arrived in the village at midnight....
The most prominent villagers were among those arrested.... This was frightening. Our official leadership had been taken away in one night. The farmers, mostly illiterate and ignorant, were thereby left much more defenseless.
The leaders of Dolot's village were never seen again.
Searcher08 » Thu Sep 05, 2013 4:44 pm wrote:Do you think the EDL is a creation of the Mossad / MI6?
What do you make of the apparent confluence between Islamophobic fascists and militant zionists?
I found it fascinating and bizarre, especially the links with Kahane and Brevik.
I think it's important to be clear about what we really know and can prove and what we can't. That said, yes, the ties to racist zionist hawks are overt. While by definition covert ops are hard to prove, I see EDL as such a hot potato that I imagine "useful idiots" will be put to use by those who find them useful and I also believe that grassroots populist Fascism really does exist. So I'm imagining some kind of mix but unsure of all the ingredients.
Searcher08 » Thu Sep 05, 2013 7:17 pm wrote:Speculation ahead:
From various things I have read from folks like Ray McGovern most Intel agencies seem to have quite a number of factions within factions, who are playing their *own* games/ wheels within byzantine wheels, in the organisational equivalent of ARGs.
I think it is reasonable to assume that by thinking about the sort of people drawn to these Intel environments, we are talking about sociopathic folks; and we are not just dealing with 'Ponerology' individuals, but a self-created / reinforcing 'Ponerology' organisation / culture.
The wider culture as a sum of multiple, unknown-to-each-other, contradictory and lie-filled power and resource games.
Looking at the effects will drive a person crazy, because they are the intersecting interference waves produced by sociopathic 'ripples'.
Is it actually a question of diagnosing and geting rid of sociopaths from positions of political power?
American Dream » Thu Sep 05, 2013 11:35 am wrote:http://www.social-ecology.org/1996/01/left-green-perspectives-35/
From Green Messiah to New Age Nazi
by Matthew Kalman and John Murray
Matthew Kalman and John Murray are editors of the eco-political investigative magazine Open Eye, which has been uncovering and exposing David Icke and “New Age Nazism.” Address: BM Open Eye, London WC1N 3XX. Issue 3 is available for £1.70.
It has been hard in recent years to ignore the rising popularity of almost everything that comes under the heading New Age. Yoga, meditation, Kabbalah, Buddhism, alternative medicine, environmentalism, and self-improvement, as well as an array of New Age therapies, have all gained in popularity, as have other fringe interests like UFOs and the paranormal, which often appeal to the same people. Few will have avoided at least some contact.
The movement even has its own stars. In Britain, David Icke, the TV sports commentator turned Green Party national spokesman turned purple-robed “Son of God,” is the best-known leader.
Elvis » Thu Sep 05, 2013 8:28 pm wrote:American Dream » Thu Sep 05, 2013 11:35 am wrote:http://www.social-ecology.org/1996/01/left-green-perspectives-35/
From Green Messiah to New Age Nazi
by Matthew Kalman and John Murray
Matthew Kalman and John Murray are editors of the eco-political investigative magazine Open Eye, which has been uncovering and exposing David Icke and “New Age Nazism.” Address: BM Open Eye, London WC1N 3XX. Issue 3 is available for £1.70.
It has been hard in recent years to ignore the rising popularity of almost everything that comes under the heading New Age. Yoga, meditation, Kabbalah, Buddhism, alternative medicine, environmentalism, and self-improvement, as well as an array of New Age therapies, have all gained in popularity, as have other fringe interests like UFOs and the paranormal, which often appeal to the same people. Few will have avoided at least some contact.
The movement even has its own stars. In Britain, David Icke, the TV sports commentator turned Green Party national spokesman turned purple-robed “Son of God,” is the best-known leader.
What this is saying is that yoga, meditation, Kabbalah, Buddhism, alternative medicine, environmentalism, self-improvement, UFOs and the paranormal are all part of a monolithic "movement" led by David Icke, and anyone who has not "avoided at least some contact" with these pernicious ideas is, if not already an anti-semitic Holocaust revisionist who reads the Spotlight, is in grave danger of being "enticed" onto the "anti-Semitic treadmill."
That's an enormous stretch, AD, do you really take such a claim seriously?
David Icke should be given a hard look, no question about that. His website forums are populated with real, actual nazis and Hitler-lovers. But -- practicing yoga leads to David Icke and the slippery antisemitic slope? Environmentalism?
This is starting to be outright offensive.
Elvis » Thu Sep 05, 2013 8:28 pm wrote:
This is starting to be outright offensive.
The leader of the Illuminists, a Bavarian professor of religious law named Adam Weishaupt, wanted to free the world “from all established religious and political authority”. His Order aimed to get rid of the kings and the churches that had ruled Europe since the Middle Ages, and make room for new forms of commerce, science, and democratic government that were struggling to emerge at the time. The Illuminists modeled themselves partly on the Jesuits, an order of Catholic priests, and partly on the Freemasons. They infiltrated Masonic lodges in order to gain influence in society, and pursue their goals.
A class of rich merchants arose in Europe, trading with far-flung parts of the globe. New technologies developed, and with them new kinds of skilled workers. These new classes started to wield more power than the kings and queens who were supposed to be on top according to law and tradition. The American Revolution demonstrated the power of these classes to the whole world, when they broke free from the British crown.
They disbanded around 1787. Like so many other groups of its kind, the Illuminists failed to bring about revolutionary changes. But revolutionary change happened without them.
Not everyone celebrated the changes sweeping through Europe, however. People whose social status depended on the old aristocracy and the church tended to resist the changes. Some of them wrote books, and this is how the first Illuminati conspiracy theories were created.
Today’s Illuminati theory follows the same pattern. Even poor people who draw on Illuminati theory, who might otherwise sympathize with protest movements, often view movements as secret ploys by the Illuminati to cause trouble.
Because of this association with Enlightenment radicalism, people who opposed revolution tended to view Freemasons as the enemy. This is a common pattern: the elite always think revolutions are planned and directed by a small group of enlightened people, instead of by masses of people themselves.
In reality, Masonic lodges are elaborate social clubs for people who want to feel elite. In some places, Masonic lodges have provided a place for intellectuals to discuss how to change society, but they’re usually pretty boring. If you go into a Masonic temple today, you’ll see groups of small business owners talking about how to plant trees on Main Street, not a secret group plotting to rule the world. Nevertheless, their association with the original Bavarian Order of Illuminists has meant they’re always included in Illuminati theory.
American Dream » Fri Sep 06, 2013 1:39 am wrote:Elvis » Thu Sep 05, 2013 8:28 pm wrote:American Dream » Thu Sep 05, 2013 11:35 am wrote:http://www.social-ecology.org/1996/01/left-green-perspectives-35/
From Green Messiah to New Age Nazi
by Matthew Kalman and John Murray
Matthew Kalman and John Murray are editors of the eco-political investigative magazine Open Eye, which has been uncovering and exposing David Icke and “New Age Nazism.” Address: BM Open Eye, London WC1N 3XX. Issue 3 is available for £1.70.
It has been hard in recent years to ignore the rising popularity of almost everything that comes under the heading New Age. Yoga, meditation, Kabbalah, Buddhism, alternative medicine, environmentalism, and self-improvement, as well as an array of New Age therapies, have all gained in popularity, as have other fringe interests like UFOs and the paranormal, which often appeal to the same people. Few will have avoided at least some contact.
The movement even has its own stars. In Britain, David Icke, the TV sports commentator turned Green Party national spokesman turned purple-robed “Son of God,” is the best-known leader.
What this is saying is that yoga, meditation, Kabbalah, Buddhism, alternative medicine, environmentalism, self-improvement, UFOs and the paranormal are all part of a monolithic "movement" led by David Icke, and anyone who has not "avoided at least some contact" with these pernicious ideas is, if not already an anti-semitic Holocaust revisionist who reads the Spotlight, is in grave danger of being "enticed" onto the "anti-Semitic treadmill."
That's an enormous stretch, AD, do you really take such a claim seriously?
David Icke should be given a hard look, no question about that. His website forums are populated with real, actual nazis and Hitler-lovers. But -- practicing yoga leads to David Icke and the slippery antisemitic slope? Environmentalism?
This is starting to be outright offensive.
Do I think that "practicing yoga leads to David Icke and the slippery antisemitic slope? Environmentalism?"
Hardly! I practice both and I'm clearly not into David Icke. I do think he has drawn sustenance from the New Age and broadly links himself to those sorts of currents.
What though do you think though of the evidence that Icke veers into racism and the far right? That is what is should be disturbing to a thinking, moral and socially aware person, in my book....
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