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There are lots of things to be happy about in May. The weather is getting warmer, the days are getting longer, and baseball season is in full swing. But it also marks the season's end of the piano recital series of the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society. This year, the concluding recital on Tuesday evening, May 10, was an especially varied and satisfying offering by the British pianist, Imogen Cooper. Yes, it was varied, even though all pieces fit within the 19th Century Romantic period:
Schumann: Geistervariationen (Ghost Variations)
Schumann: Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6 (Dances of the League of David)
Wagner: Elegie
Liszt: Années de Pèlerinage, Book II: Italie [Four Selections]
Il Penserosa
Canzonetta del Salvator Rosa
Sonetto 104 del Petrarca
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Prelude (Transcribed by Zoltan Kocsis)
Liszt: La Lugubre Gondola No. 1
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Liebestod (Transcribed by Franz Liszt)
I had never heard—indeed, never heard of Schumann's "Ghost Variations." Written shortly before Schumann was committed to a mental asylum, and published after his death, the piece starts with an original theme which, although in a major key, manages to be melancholic. The first four variations are rather sedate and introspective. The fifth and final variation is more exuberant, but then, with a brief restatement of the theme, it ends. Cooper gave it her best shot, but the piece just seems to be missing the spark of inspiration.
The "Ghost Variations" seem especially limited when compared with the next work. Davidsbündlertänze is one of Schumann's most imaginative works. In 18 segments, he explores a wide range of musical and emotional material. Cooper's performance was just what one wishes for Schumann. She used rhythmic flexibility to make us pay attention to each segment without losing the forward momentum that characterizes Schumann's piano writing. The dynamic shading was subtle, but just enough to emphasize when needed.
I can't say much about Wagner's Elegie, since the piece is so short, it ends almost as soon as it begins. But I can say something about the four selections from Book II of Liszt's Années de Pèlerinage. These are among Liszt's finest works, with the opening and closing pieces in this set among my personal favorites: Sposalizio, because I played it; and Sonetto 104 del Petrarca, because it is one of the most sensuously beautiful of all piano works. All four were tastefully and memorably rendered.
My immediately preceding concert experience included an orchestration of a piano piece, Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. Tuesday evening's recital concluded with the opposite: two transcriptions of orchestral music for piano. The Prelude to Tristan und Isolde was skillfully arranged by the eminent Hungarian pianist Zoltan Kocsis. More frequently performed is the Liszt transcription of Liebestod, and Cooper delivered fine performances that emphasized the still surprising harmonies of both works.
There was one recurring flaw, and that was a stray sound or buzz when she released certain notes. I attribute that to unfamiliarity with the particular instrument she played for this recital. But overall, she was in complete command of her program. Don't go to an Imogen Cooper recital expecting to be dazzled with a jaw-dropping technique. But do expect, and experience, a pianist with depth and commitment to every work she performs.
Imogen Cooper - depth rather than dazzle
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HOLLAND -- The Hope College hockey team has received an automatic bid to play in the national tournament of the American Collegiate Hockey Association (ACHA) in Springfield, Mo. from March 12-16
The Flying Dutchmen (20-5) are the #2 seed behind Davenport from the North Region. This will be Hope's 12th consecutive year of qualifying for the the national tournament. A year ago Hope finished eighth at the national tournament. The team has finished as high as second nationally three times (2003-2010, 2011).
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From Elvis to Lady Gaga: Music and culture collide in innovative new course
13 August 2012
There is no denying the worldwide cultural influence of American popular music and rock 'n' roll. In an innovative new course from the United States Studies Centre, the sexual, racial and gender aspects of this mega-industry will be examined through the eyes of some of the music industries biggest influencers.
Commencing in Semester 2, Sex, Race and Rock in the USA (USSC2604) will delve into the cultural history of the United States through intersections of sexuality, race and rock music. The course will be taught by Dr Rebecca Sheehan, who sees it as the perfect balance between academia and popular culture.
"At least in stereotype, rock 'n' roll and the ivory tower are opposed", she says.
"This course provides a great opportunity to connect them. Music and its industries can't be understood in a purely academic way."
It is for this reason that Dr Sheehan has lined up some of the music industry's most influential and exciting personalities as guest speakers.
Guest lecturers include Executive Vice President of Universal Music Publishing International Andrew Jenkins; Editor of Rolling Stone magazine, Rod Yates, front woman of rising Australian band The Jezabels, Hayley Mary; Associate Professor Ian Maxwell from the Department of Performance Studies, who will be giving a lecture on hip hop down under, and the co-founder of MTV, Les Garland, who was also the Executive Producer of the Live Aid concert in 1985.
"Through the guest speakers I hope that students will gain a greater insight into the rock industry", says Dr Sheehan.
And it is an industry worth examining, as it holds a vast influence across the globe. In a time when there is a lot of discussion about the lessening of American global power in light of the rise of China's "economic might", Dr Sheehan believes that we should not overlook America's "soft power".
"Rock music has played a major role in America's global dominance, selling freedom, individualism and rebellion. It has also built communities of listeners and fans across national borders, transcending the bounds of the nation-state and empowering minority groups", she explains.
Popular music holds the unique dichotomy of being collective and personal.
"Music is personal - we each have our own relationship with it. So when we study sex, race and rock in the US we are not only studying American history, we are studying our own history," says Sheehan.
"In addition to enjoying rock music, we need to take it seriously."
Sex, Race and Rock in the USA is cross-listed with American Studies, Gender and Cultural Studies, Music and History. For further information and to enrol, visit the United States Studies Centre website.
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Halloween's coming, so why not continue with my horror double-feature suggestions? Although based on an early 1930s story by Edogawa Rampo, Blind Beast can be seen as Yasuzo Masumura's inverted take on John Fowles' abduction classic The Collector (made into a 1965 movie by William Wyler, which might've been recommended here if it were a better adaptation). Fowles' book is about class and the empty exercise of capital, in which an alienated office clerk moves up the economic ladder by winning the lottery, but remains on the outside looking in. His only passions are in the form of commodity fetishism: collecting butterflies and fantasizing about a beautiful young female artist whom he obsessively watches from afar. He uses his newfound wealth to kidnap and imprison her with the hopes that she'll discover who he truly is, you know, on the inside. But what he is is nothing more than a guy who collects things, with no more connection to those things than that they fulfill some mental checklist. His is a life reduced to reification where an emotional bond is seen as two stamps being placed together in a book.
In Blind Beast, the kidnapper, Aki, is a blind sculptor who poses as a masseur in order to get tactile inspiration for his art, surrealistic walls of female body parts. Being a sadist, Aki finds his perfect model, Michio, a woman who begins as his victim, but with the transgressive sexualization of pain (or, perhaps, the Stockholm Syndrome) is transformed into a willing masochist. As Luis Buñuel explained his attraction to surrealism:
For the first time in my life, I'd come into contact with a coherent moral system that, as far as I could tell, had no flaws. It was an aggressive morality based on the complete rejection of all existing values. We had other criteria: we exalted passion, mystification, black humor, the insult, and the call of the abyss. Inside this new territory, all our thoughts and actions seemed justifiable; there was simply no room for doubt. Everything made sense. Our morality may have been more demanding and more dangerous than the prevailing order, but it was also stronger, richer, more coherent. -- quoted here
Whereas The Collector's Frederick never sees his captive as more than an object, thereby reinforcing his own alienation, Michio's abduction is cause for an aesthetic release from objectifying social restrictions. In a spiraling dialectic of slicing and dicing, she and Aki achieve an intersubjective bond through sensuousness (more painful than I'd prefer, but you get the picture).


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First, some quick assembly (of the snap-together variety) and your Play-Doh 3D Printer is almost ready for action. Add 2 C batteries, plug it into your iPad, and launch the free app: iPlay-Doh 3D. Quickly design all sorts of things on the free app and then send them to your Play-Doh 3D Printer. Add up to 3 different colors (they'll blend like soft serve ice cream) to the top of the Play-Doh 3D Printer and then watch your iPad for directions. The iPlay-Doh 3D app will let you know when the printer is ready for you to start cranking.
There are two different cranks on the Play-Doh 3D Printer: one to drip the Play-Doh down onto the conveyor belt and one to move the conveyor belt back and forth (to make sure the Play-Doh gets in just the right place). Sure, the overall product isn't as sturdy as an expensive 3D printed object, but it will air-harden and can be painted just like one. With the Play-Doh 3D Printer, you'll learn basic CAD skills, bow hunting skills (just kidding), and 3D printing skills. It's time to stop reading and get one now. Go on. Get!
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I love going to my local bookstore. I try to spend an hour each week browsing through the various sections, seeking out what's new and finding a treasure to bring home, I particularly love the food and wine section where I can see the latest cookbooks.
Last week I was wandering through aisles when I stumbled upon The Meat Free Monday Cookbook. I am ashamed to admit that I did not know much about this campaign until I started to read the book. Meat Free Monday is a program that was started by Paul McCartney and his family to create awareness about the environmental impact of the meat industry. Their theory is that if we all stopped eating meat for one day each week we could save money, eat healthier and have a positive impact on the environment by reducing the greenhouse gas emissions associated with livestock production.
The book provides 52 weeks of menus that include a breakfast, a packed lunch, a dinner, a side or a dessert recipe. Each of the weeks are segregated by the four seasons. contributors to the book include celebrity and chef supporters like Mario Batali, Yotam Ottolenghi, Kevin Spacy, Twiggy, Woody Harrelson, and others.
I know many of you already skip meat once a week and many are vegetarians. I had already decided to cut down on my meat consumption as part of my commitment to a healthier lifestyle. I am not ready to give it up completely; at least not yet, but this book has certainly made me think harder about the idea.
That said, I am still constantly looking for great recipes and this book is a wonderful source. The recipes look so fresh and inviting and the photographs by Tara Fisher are beautiful.
This Beet, Red Onion and Endive salad is one of the most delicious salads I have ever had. I made it as a starter course for dinner last week and we ended up having second helpings before moving on to the main course because it was so good. It would make a great dinner or lunch entre.
Beet, Red Onion and Endive Salad
5 golf ball-size beets, trimmed of stalks and leaves
salt and freshly ground pepper
3 tablespoons olive oil
1 tbsp. red wine vinegar
1 cup pecans
2 tablespoons clear honey
2 red onions, cut into wedges
3 garlic cloves, whole and unpeeled
2 ripe pears, quartered, cored and sliced
2 heads of endive trimmed into separate leaves
1 large handful of arugula
1 cup feta cheese, crumbled
5 tbsp. walnut oil
Juice of ½ lemon
1 tsp. Dijon mustard
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Place a large piece of foil in a small roasting pan, put the beets in the middle, season and drizzle with half of the olive oil and the red wine vinegar. Wrap the foil over the beets and seal tightly, Roast the beets for 1 hour or until tender when tasted with the point of a sharp knife. Remove from the roasting pan, unwrap and cool.
Put the pecans in the roasting pan and drizzle with the honey. Stir to coat then roast for about 10 minutes until sticky and glazed. Remove from the roasting pan and cool the nuts on a plate.
Put the onions on a baking sheet, add garlic cloves, drizzle with the remaining olive oil, and roast for about 30 minutes until tender and starting to caramelize.
To make the dressing, squeeze the roasted garlic cloves from their skins into a small bowl. Add the remaining dressing ingredients and gently whisk until just combined. Peel the beets and cut into wedges. In a large bowl, layer the beets, onion, pears, endive, arugula, crumbled feta, and honey coated nuts. Generously drizzle with the dressing and serve immediately.
Recipe from The Meat Free Monday Cookbook contributed by Stella McCartney


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From army trucks to extra voting days, storm damaged states are ready for Election Day.
In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, focus centered on the human impact of the storm—the millions without power, the estimated $50 billion in damage and the more than 110 lives lost. The election, rightly so, took a back seat. Asked by a Fox News reporter the day after the storm about whether Mitt Romney would come tour the storm damage, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie made his priorities clear: "If you think right now I give a damn about presidential politics, then you don't know me."
But as residents of hard hit states like New York and New Jersey set about putting their lives back together in the storm's aftermath, political observers noted—distasteful as it was so soon after—that Hurricane Sandy may have been boosting President Obama's reelection hopes.
Bipartisan cooperation in the storm's aftermath, highlighted by Obama and Christie working together to ensure an effective federal response, earned the President high praise. According to Pew, 67 percent of registered voters approved of Obama's Hurricane response, with just 15 percent disapproving. National polls taken after the storm show Obama with a measurable, though very slight, lead over Romney heading into Tuesday's election.
Come hell or high water, the election is happening. And with one day to go, even the most devastated states feel ready. Below is a look at how the affected states, some with the help of the federal government, are working to enable voter turnout.
- Polling stations moved. NBC Connecticut reports that all but two of the state's 773 polling stations have had power restored. The two polling without power have been moved to nearby schools.
New Jersey
Under Governor Chris Christie, the state of New Jersey has taken some of the most sweeping—and creative—steps in making voting easier for displaced residents:
- Voting by fax and email. According to a directive from Republican Secretary of State and Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno, any voter displaced by Hurricane Sandy will now be designated an "overseas voter." This allows displaced residents to apply for a ballot with their county clerk, print it and send back a scanned or faxed copy. Critics worry this solution may not help those hardest hit by the storm who lack access to the Internet or a scanner.
- Early voting extended. Christie has also ordered all polling stations to remain open over the weekend. Unlike New York, New Jersey allows early voting.
- Military trucks as polling stations. Department of Defense trucks will be parked at regular polling places that have lost power or been destroyed. "The backup plan is pretty simple," Guadagno said at a press conference last week. "All the assets that the President of the United States delivered to the Governor…including Department of Defense trucks will be used to create polling places. If a polling station has been destroyed, like in Seaside Heights, Guadagno encouraged voters to return to where that polling station once stood. In its place, she said voters will find a "Department of Defense truck with a well situated National Guardsmen and a big sign that says 'Vote Here.'"
- Remaining Power Outages: According to the U.S. Energy Department, approximately 780,000 residents in New Jersey remain without power.
New York
- Polling stations moved. The New York City Board of Elections has made changes to 66 sites, the majority of which are in the Queens and Brooklyn areas. For information on changes, voters are encouraged to call a statewide phone number at 1-855-NYS-SANDY.
- Extra day of voting. Voters may get an additional day to cast a ballot if the aftereffects of the storm are so severe as to depress turnout below 25 percent. In that event, counties may file a request with the State Board of Elections and, should it be approved, a second day of voting will be scheduled, in accordance with an old New York law, within 20 days of Nov. 6.
- Remaining Power Outages: According to the U.S. Energy Department, approximately 500,000 in New York remain without power.
West Virginia
- Polling stations moved. According to WTRF.com, five counties are relocating precincts as "pockets of the state remain without power following Superstorm Sandy."
What are other unique ways are states adjusting to the storm damage? Share in the comments.


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Israel and Gaza – Lessons in History and an Opportunity for Humanity
By Bernhard Guenther, July 23rd, 2014
We live in precious times. A lot of darkness is coming to light for us to look at and become conscious of. The brutal attacks on Gaza, where people are trapped with no way out, ask us to listen to our conscience and empathy and act on it. People are protesting world-wide. The death toll of Palestinian civilians, women, and children keeps rising by the day. It is good to see how many people start to speak out and protest, but keep in mind that this has been going on for 50+ years. It is systematic ethnic cleansing that has nothing to do with self-defense. This is not a war. It is slaughter by one of the most modern military in the world, financed with American tax money.
"Israel is perhaps the world's 4th most powerful nuclear power, with a modern fully mechanized infantry with over 6,500 APC's and 4,000 tanks, the largest fleet of F-16's outside of the US, and an $11 million a day subsidy, versus the world's largest concentration camp,* GAZA * with no aircraft, and no air defense artillery, no armor, no AIPAC, and no blanket UN veto from a permanent member of the Security Council. Israel isn't the victim and this isn't defense; it's MASS MURDER ."
– Emmet Bondurant
I've seen some people expressing how sad, angry, shocked, and powerless they feel. Please keep in mind that we are NOT powerless. Feeling anger, sadness and being disturbed is a natural reaction for any human being with conscience who sees what's going on. Using it constructively, it gives us the energy to seek truth, educate ourselves, work on ourselves, gain knowledge, act on our conscience and speak out. The more we engage in that, others may be encouraged to do it as well, because most often people don't do something until someone leads by example. Others, who are too plugged into the Matrix simply ignore it or may attack you for it, but that's how the Matrix works and tries to keep itself in place. Don't get discouraged. The more we raise awareness, make the darkness conscious and separate truth from lies, within and without, the more we align ourselves with the creative principle of the universe, bringing order to chaos. This is not easy work and it takes effort but it is the first step towards positive lasting change and what "conscious evolution" implies. It's what we signed up for too. Listen to your conscience as an aware human being and make a stand for truth, love, and justice. More is at stake here, not just the lives of Palestinians. It affects all of us in ways most of us are not aware of.
Many people ask what they can do to help the situation. More important than signing petitions (which is fine and good) to help stop the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, we need to understand what and why it is actually happening, the historical context which goes back to WW I (and further than that), questioning official history (the fact that it is illegal to question some aspects of WW II should be a huge red flag to begin with and should make us question it even more), learning about Zionism, Psychopathy and Political Ponerology. Appealing to government (especially the US who gives billions of dollars yearly to Israel), world leaders, and the UN alone is useless in the long run for they are under the influence and grip of Zionist forces. For example, the U.S. Senate voted Thursday night to support Israel's ongoing invasion of the Gaza Strip. No dissenting vote was cast, and no mention was made of the hundreds of Palestinian civilians, most of whom are women and children, that have been killed by Israel in the past ten days. Read the original S.Res.498 resolution here.
"S.Res.498 – A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate regarding United States support for the State of Israel as it defends itself against unprovoked rocket attacks from the Hamas terrorist organization."
– https://beta.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/senate-resolution/498/text
This crisis is bigger than most people seem to be aware of but it is a chance to take down the world-wide Zionist control. It is a slim chance (I don't hold my breath that it is actually going to happen) and won't happen over night, but it is a step into the right direction if we educate ourselves about the truth and speak out about it.
The Zionist thought police or people heavily conditioned with the lies of official culture/history may call you an "anti-Semite", "Jew hater", "revisionist", "Nazi", "conspiracy theorist", or other ad hominem attacks (all of which I've been called with hints at my German heritage and name, claiming that I have "psychological disposition") but it has nothing to do with the facts and truth. Speaking out about Zionism and questioning official history has nothing to do with "hating" Jews nor are all Jews bad. In fact many Jews speak out about it as well. Some of my dearest friends are Jews who also speak out about Zionism and the lies of history. Much research around these topics has been done by Jews to begin with.
I encourage everyone to do your best to spread awareness about the truth of what is really going on via social media. This is the least we can do right now. Educate yourself about the true history of Zionism and this conflict as well as about psychopathy and political ponerology and then do your best to educate others and speak out about it. Don't be afraid to speak out or worry about what others think of you. You may get attacked, shamed, and ridiculed, but this is nothing compared to what the Palestinians are dealing with right now and have for the past 50+ years. Do keep that in mind. Let your conscience be your guide, not fear, or misplaced political or spiritual "correctness". This IS about choosing sides and not standing on the side lines or on the fence. The more people speak out and act on their conscience the better for all of us.
One thing I hear a lot or see on facebook posts is how so many people talk about a "balanced" view on this Israel-Palestine conflict, claiming that both sides have equal fault and both need to make equal effort and compromises so they can all "just get along" and have "peace" (spiritual bypassing). This is a reflection of not understanding the true history about this conflict nor understanding the true history of Zionism. The Zionist Israeli government has a very different understanding of what needs to be done for "peace" than most people seem to be aware if. That is the result of western propaganda (influenced by racist Zionist ideologies) which we also see reflected in the media and educational system which teaches distorted history .
It is very important for anyone to understand who argues for a "balanced" view that in this case there is no balanced view where both sides supposedly have equal fault. It's about truth and facts and not falling into the "middle ground" fallacy: "You claimed that a compromise, or middle point, between two extremes must be the truth. Sometimes a thing is simply untrue and a compromise of it is also untrue. Half way between truth and a lie, is still a lie." It's also the fallacy of putting ones logic (conclusions) before grammar (research).
Miko Peled, who was born in Jerusalem into an influential Israeli Zionist family, son of a famous General in the Israeli Army, and who now speaks out against Zionism and the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, cutting through the myths, lies, and propaganda we have been conditioned with for half a century, also makes this disclaimer at the beginning of his talks:
"The issue itself isn't a balanced issue. There can not be a balanced presentation on this and if anybody claims that their presentation is balanced, they're either misleading themselves or misleading their audience."
Then there is of course the fear of many people to speak out against Israel, because of what others may think of them, afraid of being called an anti-Semite. This is how the people police themselves, being conditioned with lies and propaganda.
Most people parrot a very distorted view of reality and history or refrain from "choosing sides" and justify it as taking the "high road", or as a sign of "spirituality" and "compassion". But essentially they are lying to themselves unconsciously, not aware of the conditioned corrupted view of history and reality they have taken on, essentially supporting the lies and ongoing ethnic cleansing in Palestine.
Here is a talk by Miko Peled:
Many people still seem to be reluctant to speak up and are afraid that it may affect their image/social status, career, bank account and anything else they're invested in (Peer pressure, what will my friends, neighbors, co-workers think?, etc.), hence, they rather defend/ignore the lies, atrocities, and the lies they tell themselves in order to self-calm (bypassing), consciously or unconsciously. To those I ask: What is your life, career and image really worth if you can't even speak the truth or be yourself? What will you tell your children when they ask you what side of history were you on and what did you do and stand for?
Most people know deep inside what is wrong with our world. In this age of information you have to be completely disassociated and numb not to see the pathology of our society and the crimes and atrocities committed by governments. When we look away and don't act on our conscience to speak out we unconsciously feel guilty about not doing so. This suppressed guilt increases the collective shadow and we become complicit just like bystanders watching a crime unfold and not doing anything about it. We lose our integrity when we don't feel for another and act on our conscience. We then get stuck in an ego-centric existence where we only care for ourselves, buying into the illusion of the ego that we are separate from the greater body politic and nothing affects us as long as we stay "positive".
Spiritual practices and over-simplified absolute truths are often times used to buffer up this unconscious guilt of not acting on our conscience and we feed our spiritually masked-up narcissism all the while lying to ourselves that we are awake and conscious. It's easy to rationalize away our guilt/remorse which cuts us off from emotions in general and ultimately our conscience. It is no surprise that psychopaths never feel any guilt/remorse at all since they also lack conscience. Of course there is also the flip-side if we get stuck in these emotions, beating ourselves up when our wounds from the past are triggered and engaging in mechanical suffering. Many of us have taken on shame and guilt from our upbringing when our care-takers or friends projected their own shadow into us and shamed us for who we truly are. However, feeling guilty about things we have done or said (or didn't stand up for) which we knew deep down inside of us were wrong and not aligned with who we truly are is our access and compass towards compassion, empathy, and conscience.
Guilt and anger are closely related. Consciously experiencing and feeling our guilt and shame can bring up anger. This is healthy anger that needs to come out and relates to our conscience coming through, using it as powerful force to stand in our integrity and act on it. Some of this anger may be related to our past which we haven't full acknowledge and worked through yet because it was buried behind guilt and shame when we even felt guilty about feeling angry and judged ourselves for it or others have judged us for being angry.
Not feeling any anger when looking at the pathology of society and the atrocities in the world is also a sign of numbness and dissociating. Many well-intentioned spiritual practitioners suppress it because it is seen as "unspiritual" and so they side-step these "negative" emotions trying to reach something "higher" without integrating emotions consciously they don't feel comfortable with, falling into the trap of the "make nice" program where niceness is mistaken as a sign of spiritual awareness. This also relates to cognitive dissonance when people reject information because it makes them uncomfortable. Feeling our collective guilt and emerging righteous anger in a full-embodied way and use this energy constructively to act on our conscience is part of the work towards wholeness and making this world a better place. If we don't, we only fuel "evil" in the world as our personal and collective shadow grows bigger and stronger.
"To the extent that we are unwilling and/or unable to consciously experience our feelings of guilt, we are guilty of unconsciously enacting something to feel guilty about. Like Shakespeare's Macbeth, in order to live with this guilt we are compelled to repeat the very thing about which we feel guilty, increasing its scope each time, as if this would magically undo the original error. This process continues until we are no longer troubled by it consciously, which is to say the guilt is then sealed away in the crypt of our deepest unconscious and we have become psychically deadened to feeling…. When we consciously experience our "feelings" of guilt in a real, "full-bodied way" (compared to an "intellectual" way, in I which we only experience the "idea" of our guilt), the underlying guilt, as if released from being stuck in a frozen block of ice, begins to melt, move, and transform…. To the extent that we're not awake, we are all complicit in what is being dreamed up in our world, which is to say we all share a collective guilt. Paradoxically, the tragic fate of consciously experiencing our guilt, shame and sin, and thereby experiencing a genuinely remorseful conscience, introduces us to the part of ourselves that is innocent. We have to feel our guilt as our possession before we can offer it; we can't surrender if there's nothing to let go of.
Our resulting complacency and inaction in the face of our species' self-extinction is, in fact, an expression of our lack of compassion. If our state of psychic blindness is reflected back to us, we will undoubtedly feel "not seen," which likewise induces in the one offering the reflection the experience of feeling unseen too. It is then as if the quality of not seeing, of blindness, of unconsciousness has entered the field. If we do not face reality however, we have no chance of transforming it. Evil can only happen in the global body politic when good people, looking away, remain silent and do nothing. Just as in a family system, the perpetrator does everything in their power to promote forgetting. All the perpetrator asks is that the bystander do nothing and remain indifferent, appealing to the near-universal desire to see, hear, and speak no evil. And yet, as Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. reminds us, "He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it."
– Paul Levy, Dispelling Wetiko – Breaking the Curse of Evil
"One can miss not only one's happiness, but also one's final guilt, without which a man will never reach his wholeness."
– Carl G. Jung
There is also this contrived "niceness" in certain "conscious movements", where people don't want to say anything "negative" in their subjective understanding of it of course. In general, some folks hide behind a social etiquette and mask without wanting to say anything "bad" or touching on any taboo subjects. They speak around issues in order to be spiritually or politically "correct" so as to not step on anyone's toes or to protect their social image, being concerned about how others may think of them.
Some time ago I was at a yoga class and the teacher finished the class with a prayer in which she also said: "Let's be conscious of what we say, and if we don't have anything nice to say, it's better to be silent". That is a good example of the distortion of "being conscious/aware" and relates to the fact why more spiritual-minded people don't look at the world more objectively, speaking out and standing up against the lies and psychopathic ways of our culture.
Because it's not "nice" to state that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza based on the racist ideology of Zionism. It's not "nice" to say that Obama is a pathological liar and that the US is controlled by Zionist forces. It's not "nice" to point out that about 8% of humanity have no conscience by birth and are mostly found in positions of power. It's not "nice" to claim that the official 9/11 story is a blatant lie. Not only is it not nice, it's also being "negative" or it is "conspiracy nonsense" according to some people's convoluted perception who never researched these topics in-depth, hence one should not say anything at all. This attitude of contrived "niceness" essentially creates the conditions for conformity, complacency, authoritarian followers, ignorance, the atrophy of critical thinking, and only fuels the oppression and atrocities we see in Gaza right now and in the world at large.
This doesn't mean that one should be mean, aggressive and rude or push information on someone who didn't ask for it. It simply means to be sincere and honest with conscience and awareness. There is a time to speak up and a time to be silent. And sometimes you have to be direct, call a spade a spade and give the lie what it deserves: the truth, regardless of what others may think, even if it doesn't sound "nice" and it doesn't conform to what someone "likes" to hear. You can be considerate and still speak the truth, even if others see it as "negative" from their conditioned point of view.
It's also interesting to see how so many self-proclaimed "spiritual" and "aware" folks, many of them very popular "spiritual" teachers/authors, yoga teachers, meditation teachers, life coaches, self-help gurus, etc., lack the most basic critical thinking skills and buy into and support the lies of official culture/history…and often times use "spiritualism" to bypass facts, reality, and justify it through over-simplified distorted spiritual ideas or engage in "political correctness". Many people are Authoritarian Followers who fall into the "appeal to authority" fallacy. This following quote also relates to Authoritarian Followers who only believe in the mainstream consensus and socially accepted version of official history:
"A very large majority of people in our society will not believe 500 people who tell them that something really works because they have tried it in opposition to a single doctor who says "that's not recommended by the medical associations." This kind of person who follows the "constituted authorities" rather than empirical evidence is referred to by psychologist Bob Altemeyer as "The Authoritarian Follower" personality type. It is thanks to this type of person that even pure psychopaths in power can get away with the most egregious crimes in all fields of endeavor, from medicine to law, from industry to politics. The Authoritarian Follower believes that those in authority have the right to live by their own rules and lying, cheating, stealing and murder in high places can thus be tolerated with a shrug of the shoulders."
– Laura Knight-Jadczyk
Like in Plato's allegory of the cave most people are distracted by the shadows on the wall, mesmerized and hypnotized, taking reality for illusion and illusion for reality. Many defenses usually come up when someone can see the deception and points to the exit of the cave, trying to show us that we are distracted by illusion. It's where psychology and mind control come in, for the mind controlled victims (as is most of society) don't know that they are mind-controlled and hypnotized. You can present endless facts and information to them but they will deny it and not able to SEE it, no matter how others point it out and ring the alarm clock. They may even attack, ridicule, and shame you for daring to question their limited reality box. Looking at the world as it is and facing objective reality that goes contrary to our ingrained beliefs can literally cause physical discomfort.
There are various unconscious psychological mechanisms that keep us in a hypnotized state because truth and objective reality is too much to handle. The most common one is cognitive dissonance. Most of us seek consistency in our beliefs and perceptions. When presented with facts or information that contradicts our long-held beliefs which we are identified with, meaning they make up part of who we think we are and we have based our behavior and life-view on these belief, it can create physical discomfort in our bodies. This results in rejecting information because of the emotional trigger we experience and has nothing to do with if the information we are presented with is true or not. It's a mechanical and unconscious reaction which shuts down our ability to reason and think clearly when confronted with information that conflicts with our beliefs. The more we are identified with beliefs the more discomfort we experience when they are being challenged. In the extreme case, a person suffering from cognitive dissonance will verbally or physically attack the other person who is challenging his/her beliefs. Rational discussion based on the information at hand is impossible if we don't check ourselves how cognitive dissonance keeps us from staying objective.
Having said all that, readers of my blog know that the rabbit hole goes deeper beyond Zionism or any -ism, national or religious identification. The work is also to be done within and without. However, we can't skip steps or try reaching something "higher" without understanding the basics of our true history and make a stand for truth, justice, and love in practical ways and in the true meaning of those words, learning our personal and collective lesson. Just like in school, we don't get to move on until our lessons are learned. So the first step would be to educate ourselves about the truth, deprogram ourselves from the lies we have believed in and then spread the word and help educate others.
"Who controls the past, controls the future. Who controls the present, controls the past."
– George Orwell
In addition to the videos posted above, below is a list articles and videos to check out. I also recommend reading "History, Lies, and the Importance of Critical Thinking and Self-work" before getting into the listed material. Out of my own experience learning about all this, having dealt with cognitive dissonance myself, de-programing myself from the lies of official history, I know how hard it is to take in this information. It can be emotionally challenging and very triggering. Please do your best to read/watch all of it presented here (including the resources within the videos and links) before coming to conclusions or dismissing something before having looked deeper into it. It took me along time researching this topic before writing this article.
Before even having an intelligent discussion about "solutions" in this Israel-Palestine conflict we need to understand the historical and present facts and how we have been conditioned with lies and propaganda. There is no way to bypass the topic of Zionism, WW I and WW II if one is sincerely interested in truth and a solution.
"So for those people who do want to associate themselves with Israel and Zionism, and drape themselves in the Zionist flag, the flag that has come to symbolize intolerance, hate, racism and brutality, they can feel free to do so. But they need to know this, that when the trials begin, and the tribunals take their place, and when the truth and reconciliation commission begins to work and they're finally shamed into admitting that they were wrong, they need to remember to go down on their knees and beg forgiveness from the people they so blatantly wronged. Because they need to realize that we will never forget them. And that their conscience will never allow them to forget [except for psychopaths, who have no conscience] that they supported the killing, they draped themselves in the flag and they mocked the bereaved."
– Miko Peled
A little history primer to start with. I see a lot of people comparing Israel to Nazi Germany. All fine and good to an extent. However, do most people actually know the true history of WW I and WW II and how it relates to the current conflict in Palestine or are they just repeating the official version (distorted by the Zionists, ironically)? Context is important without generalizing.
For example, have you ever heard of "The Balfour Declaration" and this speech by Benjamin H. Freedman from 1961? Born in 1890, Freedman was a successful Jewish businessman of New York City. He broke with organized Jewry after the Judeo-Communist victory of 1945, and spent the remainder of his life and the great preponderance of his considerable fortune, at least 2.5 million dollars, exposing the Zionist tyranny which has enveloped the United States.
Some excerpts from his speech:
"Here in the United States, the Zionists and their co-religionists have complete control of our government. For many reasons, too many and too complex to go into here at this time, the Zionists and their co-religionists rule these United States as though they were the absolute monarchs of this country. Now you may say that is a very broad statement, but let me show you what happened while we were all asleep.
What happened? World War I broke out in the summer of 1914. There are few people here my age who remember that. Now that war was waged on one side by Great Britain, France, and Russia; and on the other side by Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey.
Within two years Germany had won that war: not only won it nominally, but won it actually.
Not a shot had been fired on German soil. Not one enemy soldier had crossed the border into Germany. And yet, Germany was offering England peace terms. They offered England a negotiated peace on what the lawyers call a status quo ante basis. That means: "Let's call the war off, and let everything be as it was before the war started."
England, in the summer of 1916 was considering that — seriously. They had no choice. It was either accepting this negotiated peace that Germany was magnanimously offering them, or going on with the war and being totally defeated.
While that was going on, the Zionists in Germany, who represented the Zionists from Eastern Europe, went to the British War Cabinet and — I am going to be brief because it's a long story, but I have all the documents to prove any statement that I make — they said: "Look here. You can yet win this war. You don't have to give up. You don't have to accept the negotiated peace offered to you now by Germany. You can win this war if the United States will come in as your ally." The United States was not in the war at that time. We were fresh; we were young; we were rich; we were powerful. They told England: "We will guarantee to bring the United States into the war as your ally, to fight with you on your side, if you will promise us Palestine after you win the war." In other words, they made this deal: "We will get the United States into this war as your ally. The price you must pay is Palestine after you have won the war and defeated Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey." Now England had as much right to promise Palestine to anybody, as the United States would have to promise Japan to Ireland for any reason whatsoever. It's absolutely absurd that Great Britain, that never had any connection or any interest or any right in what is known as Palestine should offer it as coin of the realm to pay the Zionists for bringing the United States into the war. However, they did make that promise, in October of 1916. And shortly after that — I don't know how many here remember it — the United States, which was almost totally pro-German, entered the war as Britain's ally.
I say that the United States was almost totally pro-German because the newspapers here were controlled by Jews, the bankers were Jews, all the media of mass communications in this country were controlled by Jews; and they, the Jews, were pro-German.
Now those same Jews, when they saw the possibility of getting Palestine, went to England and they made this deal. At that time, everything changed, like a traffic light that changes from red to green. Where the newspapers had been all pro-German, where they'd been telling the people of the difficulties that Germany was having fighting Great Britain commercially and in other respects, all of a sudden the Germans were no good. They were villains. They were Huns. They were shooting Red Cross nurses. They were cutting off babies' hands. They were no good. Shortly after that, Mr. Wilson declared war on Germany.
There was absolutely no reason for World War I to be our war. We were railroaded into — if I can be vulgar, we were suckered into — that war merely so that the Zionists of the world could obtain Palestine. That is something that the people of the United States have never been told. They never knew why we went into World War I.
That is where all the trouble started. The United States got in the war. The United States crushed Germany. You know what happened. When the war ended, and the Germans went to Paris for the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 there were 117 Jews there, as a delegation representing the Jews, headed by Bernard Baruch. I was there: I ought to know.
Now what happened? The Jews at that peace conference, when they were cutting up Germany and parceling out Europe to all these nations who claimed a right to a certain part of European territory, said, "How about Palestine for us?" And they produced, for the first time to the knowledge of the Germans, this Balfour Declaration. So the Germans, for the first time realized, "Oh, so that was the game! That's why the United States came into the war." The Germans for the first time realized that they were defeated, they suffered the terrific reparations that were slapped onto them, because the Zionists wanted Palestine and were determined to get it at any cost.
That brings us to another very interesting point. When the Germans realized this, they naturally resented it. Up to that time, the Jews had never been better off in any country in the world than they had been in Germany. You had Mr. Rathenau there, who was maybe 100 times as important in industry and finance as is Bernard Baruch in this country. You had Mr. Balin, who owned the two big steamship lines, the North German Lloyd's and the Hamburg-American Lines. You had Mr. Bleichroder, who was the banker for the Hohenzollern family. You had the Warburgs in Hamburg, who were the big merchant bankers — the biggest in the world. The Jews were doing very well in Germany. No question about that. The Germans felt: "Well, that was quite a sellout."
It was a sellout that might be compared to this hypothetical situation: Suppose the United States was at war with the Soviet Union. And we were winning. And we told the Soviet Union: "Well, let's quit. We offer you peace terms. Let's forget the whole thing." And all of a sudden Red China came into the war as an ally of the Soviet Union. And throwing them into the war brought about our defeat. A crushing defeat, with reparations the likes of which man's imagination cannot encompass. Imagine, then, after that defeat, if we found out that it was the Chinese in this country, our Chinese citizens, who all the time we had thought were loyal citizens working with us, were selling us out to the Soviet Union and that it was through them that Red China was brought into the war against us. How would we feel, then, in the United States against Chinese? I don't think that one of them would dare show his face on any street. There wouldn't be enough convenient lampposts to take care of them. Imagine how we would feel.
Well, that's how the Germans felt towards these Jews. They'd been so nice to them: from 1905 on, when the first Communist revolution in Russia failed, and the Jews had to scramble out of Russia, they all went to Germany. And Germany gave them refuge. And they were treated very nicely. And here they had sold Germany down the river for no reason at all other than the fact that they wanted Palestine as a so-called "Jewish commonwealth."
And World War I had been started against Germany for no reason for which Germany was responsible. They were guilty of nothing. Only of being successful. They built up a big navy. They built up world trade. You must remember that Germany at the time of the French Revolution consisted of 300 small city-states, principalities, dukedoms, and so forth. Three hundred separate little political entities. And between that time, between the times of Napoleon and Bismarck, they were consolidated into one state. And within 50 years they became one of the world's great powers. Their navy was rivaling Great Britain's, they were doing business all over the world, they could undersell anybody, they could make better products. What happened as a result of that?
There was a conspiracy between England, France, and Russia to slap down Germany. There isn't one historian in the world who can find a valid reason why those three countries decided to wipe Germany off the map politically.
And at that time, mind you, there were 80 to 90 million Germans, and there were only 460,000 Jews. About one half of one per cent of the population of Germany were Jews. And yet they controlled all the press, and they controlled most of the economy because they had come in with cheap money when the mark was devalued and bought up practically everything.
The Jews tried to keep a lid on this fact. They didn't want the world to really understand that they had sold out Germany, and that the Germans resented that.
The Germans took appropriate action against the Jews. They, shall I say, discriminated against them wherever they could. They shunned them. The same way that we would shun the Chinese, or the Negroes, or the Catholics, or anyone in this country who had sold us out to an enemy and brought about our defeat.
After a while, the Jews of the world called a meeting in Amsterdam. Jews from every country in the world attended this meeting in July 1933. And they said to Germany: "You fire Hitler, and you put every Jew back into his former position, whether he was a Communist or no matter what he was. You can't treat us that way. And we, the Jews of the world, are serving an ultimatum upon you." You can imagine what the Germans told them. So what did the Jews do?
In 1933, when Germany refused to surrender to the world conference of Jews in Amsterdam, the conference broke up, and Mr. Samuel Untermyer, who was the head of the American delegation and the president of the whole conference, came to the United States and went from the steamer to the studios of the Columbia Broadcasting System and made a radio broadcast throughout the United States in which he in effect said, "The Jews of the world now declare a Holy War against Germany. We are now engaged in a sacred conflict against the Germans. And we are going to starve them into surrender. We are going to use a world-wide boycott against them. That will destroy them because they are dependent upon their export business."
The Jews of the world declared a boycott against Germany, and it was so effective that you couldn't find one thing in any store anywhere in the world with the words "Made in Germany" on it. In fact, an executive of the Woolworth Company told me that they had to dump millions of dollars worth of crockery and dishes into the river; that their stores were boycotted if anyone came in and found a dish marked "made in Germany," they were picketed with signs saying "Hitler," "murderer," and so forth, something like these sit-ins that are taking place in the South.
Now up to that time, not one hair on the head of any Jew had been hurt in Germany. There was no suffering, there was no starvation, there was no murder, there was nothing.
Naturally, the Germans said, "Who are these people to declare a boycott against us and throw all our people out of work, and make our industries come to a standstill? Who are they to do that to us?" They naturally resented it. Certainly they painted swastikas on stores owned by Jews. Why should a German go in and give his money to a storekeeper who was part of a boycott that was going to starve Germany into surrendering to the Jews of the world, who were going to dictate who their premier or chancellor was to be? Well, it was ridiculous.
The Jews of the world, the Zionists and their co-religionists everywhere, are determined that they are going to again use the United States to help them permanently retain Palestine as their foothold for their world government. That is just as true as I am standing here. Not alone have I read it, but many here have also read it, and it is known all over the world.
What are we going to do? The life you save may be your son's. Your boys may be on their way to that war tonight; and you don't know it any more than you knew that in 1916 in London the Zionists made a deal with the British War Cabinet to send your sons to war in Europe. Did you know it at that time? Not a person in the United States knew it. You weren't permitted to know it. Who knew it? President Wilson knew it. Colonel House knew it. Other insiders knew it.
That is how they got us into World War I, while we all slept. They sent our boys over there to be slaughtered. For what? So the Jews can have Palestine as their "commonwealth." They've fooled you so much that you don't know whether you're coming or going.
The eastern European Jews, who form 92 per cent of the world's population of those people who call themselves "Jews", were originally Khazars. They were a warlike tribe who lived deep in the heart of Asia. And they were so warlike that even the Asiatics drove them out of Asia into eastern Europe. They set up a large Khazar kingdom of 800,000 square miles. At the time, Russia did not exist, nor did many other European countries. The Khazar kingdom was the biggest country in all Europe — so big and so powerful that when the other monarchs wanted to go to war, the Khazars would lend them 40,000 soldiers. That's how big and powerful they were.
They were phallic worshippers, which is filthy and I do not want to go into the details of that now. But that was their religion, as it was also the religion of many other pagans and barbarians elsewhere in the world. The Khazar king became so disgusted with the degeneracy of his kingdom that he decided to adopt a so-called monotheistic faith — either Christianity, Islam, or what is known today as Judaism, which is really Talmudism. By spinning a top, and calling out "eeny, meeny, miney, moe," he picked out so-called Judaism. And that became the state religion. He sent down to the Talmudic schools of Pumbedita and Sura and brought up thousands of rabbis, and opened up synagogues and schools, and his people became what we call "Jews".
There wasn't one of them who had an ancestor who ever put a toe in the Holy Land. Not only in Old Testament history, but back to the beginning of time. Not one of them! And yet they come to the Christians and ask us to support their armed insurrections in Palestine by saying, "You want to help repatriate God's Chosen People to their Promised Land, their ancestral home, don't you? It's your Christian duty. We gave you one of our boys as your Lord and Savior. You now go to church on Sunday, and you kneel and you worship a Jew, and we're Jews."
But they are pagan Khazars who were converted just the same as the Irish were converted. It is as ridiculous to call them "people of the Holy Land," as it would be to call the 54 million Chinese Moslems "Arabs." Mohammed only died in 620 A.D., and since then 54 million Chinese have accepted Islam as their religious belief. Now imagine, in China, 2,000 miles away from Arabia, from Mecca and Mohammed's birthplace. Imagine if the 54 million Chinese decided to call themselves "Arabs." You would say they were lunatics. Anyone who believes that those 54 million Chinese are Arabs must be crazy. All they did was adopt as a religious faith a belief that had its origin in Mecca, in Arabia. The same as the Irish. When the Irish became Christians, nobody dumped them in the ocean and imported to the Holy Land a new crop of inhabitants. They hadn't become a different people. They were the same people, but they had accepted Christianity as a religious faith.
These Khazars, these pagans, these Asiatics, these Turko-Finns, were a Mongoloid race who were forced out of Asia into eastern Europe. Because their king took the Talmudic faith, they had no choice in the matter. Just the same as in Spain: If the king was Catholic, everybody had to be a Catholic. If not, you had to get out of Spain. So the Khazars became what we call today "Jews".
Now imagine how silly it was for the great Christian countries of the world to say, "We're going to use our power and prestige to repatriate God's Chosen People to their ancestral homeland, their Promised Land." Could there be a bigger lie than that? Because they control the newspapers, the magazines, the radio, the television, the book publishing business, and because they have the ministers in the pulpit and the politicians on the soapboxes talking the same language, it is not too surprising that you believe that lie. You'd believe black is white if you heard it often enough. You wouldn't call black black anymore — you'd start to call black white. And nobody could blame you. That is one of the great lies of history. It is the foundation of all the misery that has befallen the world.
Do you know what Jews do on the Day of Atonement, that you think is so sacred to them? I was one of them. This is not hearsay. I'm not here to be a rabble-rouser. I'm here to give you facts. When, on the Day of Atonement, you walk into a synagogue, you stand up for the very first prayer that you recite. It is the only prayer for which you stand. You repeat three times a short prayer called the Kol Nidre. In that prayer, you enter into an agreement with God Almighty that any oath, vow, or pledge that you may make during the next twelve months shall be null and void. The oath shall not be an oath; the vow shall not be a vow; the pledge shall not be a pledge. They shall have no force or effect. And further, the Talmud teaches that whenever you take an oath, vow, or pledge, you are to remember the Kol Nidre prayer that you recited on the Day of Atonement, and you are exempted from fulfilling them. How much can you depend on their loyalty? You can depend upon their loyalty as much as the Germans depended upon it in 1916. We are going to suffer the same fate as Germany suffered, and for the same reason…."
Full transcript: http://126.96.36.199/~gbpprorg/obama/benjamin-h-freedman-1961-speech.html
Audio recording:
– The Zionist Story (Full Length) produced by an ex-Israeli soldier
– The Greatest Story Never Told
(About 6 hr long in 26 parts. Resources are in the last part)
Synopsis of The Greatest Story Never Told by Marcus Wolfe :
WW II affected hundreds of millions of people and it affected millions of Europeans and Asians born after the war too. If not for the war, myself and millions of other people would be citizens of a different country today. Millions of people were driven off their historic homelands, lands they had lived on for centuries and borders were shifted to the victors advantage. The world was changed forever.
Europe had led the world for centuries and it laid in ruin. Entire countries were completely destroyed with their cities left unrecognizable. The British Empire was left bankrupt and broke up, the French Empire lost its colonies after the war and Germany lost a huge amount of land again, added to the losses of WW I Germany was now two thirds its former size. At least fourteen million Germans were driven off their historic lands in the biggest ethnic cleansing operation and mass movement of people in history. Europe lost its leadership position in science, technology and culture. Until 1945 and a few years after, Germany had dominated the Nobel Prizes with far more than any other country, and Great Britain and France were at the top in science too. All of Europe was educated and competitive. With the almost complete destruction of Europe, the United States and the Soviet Union took over leadership of the world and leadership in science and technology. Those two countries competed to explore space, with the USA landing on the Moon in 1969 and the USA took over leadership in the sciences too.
In 1948 Israel was created. The Zionists and Jews in general played a central role in WW II. Many were victims and many Europeans were their victims. Jews also played an important role in starting, or at least widening, and then winning the war. Jews were no less powerful after the war than before it and Israel was created in 1948. Palestinians were pushed off their land and the fighting goes on until today. For most of the last seventy years since the end of the war we were told that Jews were the main victims of WW II with a countless number of books, movies and documentaries made about the "holocaust." Hardly any other country or ethnic group's suffering was ever mentioned. Today Israel is a superpower with one of the largest nuclear arsenals in the world and with Zionism's enormous influence over virtually every western country, Israel threatens its neighbors regularly and western countries (in particular the USA) make war on their behalf.
In order to better understand what is going on in the world today we have to understand WW II, the war that put the people that rule the world today into power. Most of the world does not understand how we got where we are today because the history of WW II has been deliberately distorted. In order to ensure these false notions of what the war was about and who the bad guys were and who the good guys were (the victors of course), laws have been put into place that guarantee that anyone that questions or produces evidence against the "holocaust" or other mainstream claims is in violation of the law and is subject to jail. More than a few important historians and scientists have been thrown into jail in Europe and very few people in academia or outside of academia complain about this and at the same time these self satisfied people talk about the importance of "freedom of speech" and its important role in a democracy.
While Churchill and FDR are presented as Saints and even Stalin was proclaimed to be a great man, Germany's leader and the Germans themselves have been presented as the devil incarnate. We have been told over and over for the last seventy years many different things about Hitler, all bad and many ridiculous. Many books and claims have been made about the man and many contradict each other, but as long as they portray Hitler as evil they get a good reception by the media. We're told he was a lowly corporal, a house painter, a homosexual and at the same time a murderer of homosexuals. Then contradicting the house painter claim, they say he was a failed art student, he was so evil that he was incapable of painting a human figure with the proper dimensions.
In truth Hitler was an aspiring art student that was competent, but not good enough to get into the art school in Vienna. He was not a coward as we are often told, but a war hero winning the Iron Cross first and second class, he was gassed at the end of the war and suffered the terrible pain that went with that. He was a heterosexual that had sexual relations and married the love of his life before they both committed suicide to avoid being tortured and murdered by the victorious allies. He presided over the most remarkable economic recovery of the 1930's and he was a remarkable military leader. For putting millions of Germans back to work, ending the misery imposed on Germany by its enemies and restoring Germany's pride his people supported him to the bitter end. No matter the military setbacks or the mass murder of Germany's civilians by enemy bombers he had the full support of all of Germany and Germany fought virtually the whole world until the bitter end.
This documentary attempts to educate the viewer about the facts regarding Hitler, the war, the holocaust and many other things.
The film comes in 26 segments, each about fifteen minutes in length.
I also recommend reading this interview with the film maker Dennis Wise.
There is way more information than what is posted here. This is just meant as a start. There are also many resources within the videos to check out.
– HELLSTORM – The Biggest Cover-Up In History (1hr. 30min)
– David Irving – The Faking of Adolf Hitler for History
– David Cole – A Jew investigating the Holocaust
Psychopathy and Political Ponerology:
– Marianne Williamson and the Elephant in the Living Room
– Political Ponerology by Dr. Andrew Lobaczewski
– The Psychopath and the Mask of Sanity
– Without Conscience by Robert D. Hare, Ph.D.
– Defense Against the Psychopath
A little personal note to end with. The last two weeks have been quite challenging and draining for me. Watching helplessly how the people in Gaza are being slaughtered while the world watches has been very hard. Doing the best I can to speak out about it on facebook, I've received ad hominem attacks, publicly and in messages and emails, even a law suit threat by a popular "spiritual teacher". On a positive note I've never seen so many people protest and speak out against the crimes of Israel. I've made many new friends, in particular Arab and Jewish friends, fighting for the same cause: truth, justice and love. This is inspiring and does give me hope.
Writing this blog has been very challenging and vulnerable for me on a personal level, going back into history. Many atrocities were committed during WW I and WW II from all nations. Millions of people have died from all ethnicities, not just Jews. The Allies, the so-called "saviors of the world from evil" have committed horrendous war crimes which have been edited out from our official history books. On a personal level a lot of unconscious guilt and shame came up for me, taking in all this information. I didn't expect that to happen. I was forced to re-visit my childhood and my parent's history, who were born during WW II and grew up under impossible circumstances. My Mom is from Poland, half German, half Polish. My Dad from East Germany. He and his family tried to escape Eastern Germany in the 60's, jumping off a ferry in the Mediterranean Sea, trying to swim to the western part. They got caught and imprisoned in East Germany. The universe sent them an angel and a German lawyer helped them to migrate to West Germany. My Dad and Mom met in a refugee house in West Germany, starting a new life with literally nothing. To this day my Dad can't fully remember what happened. He has dissociated much of the past. When trying to talk about it, anxiety comes up and he gets headaches. My mom and I encouraged him to write his memoirs but he simply can't go there. He was born right around when WW II started.
I have gone through a very guilt-ridden education in Germany with a mandatory visit at the concentration camp in Dachau as a 16-year old, not having any clue, being told how evil and bad we were in WW II. I don't believe in nationalism and don't identify myself with any country, but there was certainly some ancestral trauma and guilt that came up recently, remembering all the Nazi jokes about Germans I was subjected to when moving to the US (and still am), all the films where Germans mostly play the bad guys in Hollywood movies, all the propaganda and lies I've believed in and taken on, the shaming and guilt projected on the German people. Realizing now the truth of what actually happened, things that I was never told in high school, brought me to tears and I wept a lot. It was very difficult for me to learn about all this and didn't expect to be so effected by it. At first I even rejected it, dealing with cognitive dissonance, even being afraid to believe that and talk or write about it. But I feel doing what I do helps not only to heal myself but to heal my Dad and my ancestors as well, and everyone else, for the past is connected to all of us and we are all connected. I feel like I'm going through a purging.
"Our lives are not our own. we are bound to others, past and present. And by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future. Truth is singular. Its 'versions' are mistruths. To be is to be perceived, and so to know thyself is only possible through the eyes of the other… The nature of our immortal lives is in the consequences of our words and deeds, that go and impressionate themselves throughout all time…Yesterday, my life was headed in one direction. Today, it is headed in another. Yesterday I believed that I would never have done what I did today. These forces that often remake time and space, that can shape and alter who we imagine ourselves to be, begin long before we are born and continue after we perish. Our lives and our choices, like quantum trajectories, are understood moment to moment. At each point of intersection, each encounter suggests a new potential direction."
– from "Cloud Atlas"
Especially now I expect more attacks, as a "German" questioning official history. But my essence is not "German". I'm just a human being and share many of the same fears as you all do. I have my issues and short-comings. Some people tell me how "courageous" and "brave" I am for speaking out like that. I really don't feel like that at all. I just act on my conscience and feel I have no other choice but to speak out. I don't think I'm special or better than anyone else. The world is an intense place to be, so much beauty and so much horror at the same time. Blind and ignorant people who are vey conditioned with official culture/history can do a lot of harm. Doing what I do is certainly not helping me make money or be popular and "liked", but money and popularity have never been my driving forces. I'm just trying to make sense of what is going on the world and act on my conscience, becoming a better person in the process. By no means do I hate Jews, never did, or any other ethnic group. By no means would I imply that Hitler was just a "misunderstood good guy". Obviously he has blood on his hand and was a power-driven nationalist, like many others, however his story and the story of the German people during that period and much about WW II has been grossly distorted. That's a fact for anyone to see who does some sincere research and it will also become clear how it relates to current conflicts in our world.
I just want a better world for all of us and all I'm interested is in truth, as it is. There is still so much we don't know. Nationalism, religious fundamentalism, greed and desire for power are diseases in themselves if left unchecked. However, our true history has been suppressed and grossly distorted in purpose. History is written by the victors after all. It's about truth and truth should not fear investigation. It is also clear to anyone who investigates history how all of this relates to the current conflict between Israel and Palestine and our world at large. Many people say it is a very complicated situation. It is indeed a complicated situation and stating that should encourage anyone to learn about it all for then it becomes clearer. The truth about history does matter, so we can truly learn from it and create a better world for all of us.
In the end I know this is part of the process. The Matrix and the people plugged into it will attack anyone who dares to step out of the herd. The people in Gaza and many others in the world suffer way more than me and most of us. We should be grateful to live such privileged lives and never take anything for granted. Thank you all for the great support and encouraging messages. They outweigh all the attacks I have received by far.
"Monkey, killing monkey, killing monkey
Over pieces of the ground.
Silly monkeys give them thumbs,
They make a club
And beat their brother… down.
How they survived so misguided is a mystery.
Repugnant is a creature who would squander the ability
to lift an eye to heaven conscious of his fleeting time here"
– Tool, Right in Two
—October 20, 2015, 3:32 am
I can't believe I'm the first to comment on here. Thank you Bernhard for all you're doing. This path is certainly not for the faint hearted but it is reassuring to know that there are fellow pilgrims on the road to Truth. You have helped me and my friend very much, giving us some much needed direction after we identified the hypocrisies of our world. I love your work and hope to see more of it in future.
—April 15, 2016, 3:45 am
Thanks for this deeply informative and educational personal article. Am slowly absorbing and digesting it. You are doing an amazing service. Bless you
—February 28, 2017, 1:57 pm
Refreshing to see someone not afraid to tell the truth despite all the political correctness in the world today that most sheeple do not question.
—July 20, 2017, 1:51 am
You are an amazing man. All that you speak resonates with me to the core of my being. It brings me some peace to know I am not alone in this world, my beliefs, and higher wisdom.
—December 9, 2017, 3:53 pm
First of all, i Love You brother. I used to define myself as a Muslim Mediterranean African Arab (Morrocco), i was deep into religious brainwashing. 3 years ago my soul woke me up to a new reality. Since then your work helped me a lot.
I'm now, a spiritual being having a physical experience.
What about the link between the Hyperdimentionnal matrix and Zionism.


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May is National Stroke Awareness Month
A Survivor
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Dear friends,
I recently shared with you that I am moving back to Grand
Rapids, MI. Much of my family lives there, including the three sisters that
formed my recovery team after my first stroke in 2008. One sister is a nurse,
one is a speech therapist and one is a teacher. Their areas of specialization
were very important in my recovery. They were tough but tender with their
brother, and after these seizures I really need their help again.
What I share in this letter I hope will provide
encouragement for other survivors and caregivers. As survivors we all have a
bank of "medical medals" on our chests, so I won't share how and when I got all
of mine. That isn't my point. WE have all been wounded in a medical ambush that
came on unannounced.
As Kenny Rogers used to sing "you got to know when to hold
them, and know when to fold them". For many of us, we didn't have that kind of
choice when our stroke occurred. It just happened, without warning,
unannounced, and life hasn't been the same since. WE have had to "hold em" by
default, with the challenges of a stroke our "new normal". The does not mean
that life hasn't been rich and fulfilling- in fact, to the contrary.
I was previously a VP with Morgan Stanley. I attended
meetings in the Morgan Stanley corporate offices many times, located in the
World Trade Center. I even still have my ID that allowed me access, as a reminder
of how quickly things can change. But I don't need that as a reminder any more.
I just look in the mirror and see the surgical scars now.
Just like the surprise of 9-11 and how things have changed
as a result of that day, the change in my life has been remarkable. Whether it
has been remarkably good or remarkably bad, remarkably happy or remarkably sad
depends on one's perspective.
When I flew into NY or Chicago or LA for meetings I was
picked up by a sleek black limousine with a driver. Now I ride what I refer to
as the "short bus". But my inclination is to honestly say I like "life" better now
than I did in the limo days. Life today is more authentic and genuine and
that's because of who I interact with now and how they have helped me use my
eyes. And you all are a part of that group of people.
Instead of focusing on the next promotion or the next deal,
I use my eyes to see who and what is around me. Instead of looking at the line
of people ahead of me that I might have aspired to be, I now look behind me at
the longer line of people who daily face challenges together than anything I
have endured.
It is all about perspective; changed perspective. And this
group has taught me many things both by your words and your actions. The
overarching umbrella under which we live our lives each day is faith. Faith in
God in which we live our lives each day is faith. Faith in god in which we pray
at the conclusion of our Tuesday meetings, faith in his provision (providing
for our needs, not necessarily our wants), faith in our future (I would likely
never have met you were that for us not having a stroke…maybe a few of you at a
seniors rock concert somewhere down the line), faith in our fellow man
(doctors, nurses, specialists that saved our lives and nurtured us back to
health) and faith and love for our neighbor and for the person we sit next to
at these meetings.
Is the glass half empty or half full? You have all
demonstrated to me that your glass of life is half full, and many times
overflowing. For sharing that perspective consistently each Tuesday, I thank
you and wish you God's continued blessing and provisions in each of your
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UPDATE: The mystery has been revealed. Today's TMJ4 reports the advertising firm behind the campaign is Laughlin/Constable based out of New York, Chichago and Milwaukee who created the ads for the Lung Cancer Alliance located in Washington, D.C.
The non-profit organization wanted a campaign that would demand attention and they sure got it.
The countdown clock has been removed at NoOneDeservesToDie.org and in its place is a message that says, "Many people believe that if you have lung cancer you did something to deserve it. It sounds absurd, but it's true. Lung cancer doesn't discriminate and neither should you. Help put an end to the stigma and the disease."
The campaign seemed to have worked; people are talking about lung cancer and the non-profit organization Lung Cancer Alliance has gotten a lot of people's attention. The real question is, will they listen?
A guerrilla marketing campaign involving posters declaring "________ deserves to die" has been spotted in cities around the country including Seattle, New York, California and Chicago.
The in-your-face posters feature portraits of various types of people including the wealthy, the beautiful, the hip and even animal lovers stating they deserve to die are wheat pasted onto the sides of payphones and hung at bus stops. The graphics have raised a lot of questions and caused quite a stir resulting in some being ripped off by people who have taken offense to the message.
Kyle Rothfus of Chicago said, "Nobody deserves to die; come on, that's a hell of a statement" reports CBS Chicago.
The real question is, what do the posters mean? The website NoOneDeservesToDie.org appears to be the source of the campaign features a countdown clock that expires Thursday at midnight and will hopefully reveal more information at that time. The little information that is currently on the site states, "Every year over 160,000 lives are lost to a deadly disease," which has lead people to speculate the campaign is linked to lung cancer. According to The Center for Disease Control 158,592 people died from lung cancer in 2008 so the connection is plausible.
Several years ago American Legacy Foundation launched an anti-smoking campaign called The Truth which used a similarly dramatic method of spreading its message involving mannequins to represent smokers who have died due to smoking.
The only certain way to know the meaning behind the posters is to check back at midnight when more information will be released.
The photo belongs to flickr user lynnfriedman and was available for use under the Creative Commons License.


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