16 March 2013
Some different wording on my thoughts regarding 'reincarnation'
'I' accept that 'I' am ultimately just a bunch of particles (quarks,
gluons, leptons, and whatever) and that some day 'I' will cease thinking
because 'my' brain will stop functioning. But due to what 'I' believe
to be the infinite nature of time, and the ever reincarnating nature of
space and universes and so on and so forth, biological life inevitably
springs up through that infinity of time, essentially, infinitely. Thus
'my' belief due to the nature of probability and such things is that I
will 'reincarnate' now 'I' use that word rather cautiously because it's
not the traditional concept of 'reincarnation' most people may think
when they hear the word used, but rather just an inevitable re-occurrence
of 'your' consciousness in some life form in some place and time, again
and again, due to the nature of space and time and probability and such
things. As 'one' is not aware of the passage of time due to the lack of
their conscious perception when they happen to be 'dead', essentially,
relative to 'our' perception, 'we' are always 'alive'. Feel free to have at me with any questions you may have about this subject, such a discussion would be very interesting.
1 January 2013
19 November 2012
The human 'soul'
To begin, I believe there is no soul, at least not as the religious type would have you believe.
We're all just biological lifeforms, a miracle of molecules and atoms, an evolution on a rock that happened to have the right conditions, that no doubt happens in countless places and times in existence (the past, the future, distant galaxies, anywhere you can imagine it's possible...) where the conditions are also right.
There is a type of soul though. Humanity evolved from the animals because of our ingenuity, our intelligence, our resilience above the rest. Why is it now that people are herded like sheep or ant farms, and so few think for themselves? We're living in crowded conditions, watching the same programmed 'programmes' on our media devices, reading the same bullshit, we're no different from animals except that so many of has have a delusion of 'sentience', of independent thought, of being superior to animals. Animals socialise, animals frolick, animals hunt prey to feed themselves and their family. Animals don't sit in shacks gluttonously gorging themselves on every scrap until they become quite the fat bastards, all while watching the 392424th series of the latest reality TV show everyone is talking about on headbook.
Human society is crowding people together, yet making them more alone than ever, and making them all think and watch and see and do the same things much like something from an Orwellian novel. It's quite ridiculous. The funniest thing is those in power are just as deluded as anyone, because space and time are above it all. The one way for humanity to do good would have been to work together for common goals (scientific discoveries and not just the profitable ones, the advancement of our species, searching the stars, finding a great meaning) and those running our world fucked that up in favour for a little hedonism, or profit, or control, which holds no true meaning on earth or humanity or society or existence, except some little chemicals in their frail biological brains (dopamine and such).
To get back to the subject, I believe there is soul in humanity, and that soul is managing to avoid all of these pitfalls and downfalls that society throws at you, remaining an individual after it all. Fuck the corporations, fuck the politicians, fuck the breweries telling everyone in society they need to drink to be normal, fuck the governments for cramping people together and making them unhappy, fuck the big pharmaceutical companies, fuck the big religious heads pretending to be divine while hoarding wealth while children starve on other parts of the world, all of those above and the many more like them are the great enemies to humanity.
Pursue philosophy but never get stuck to a viewpoint or single mindset. Pursue science with interest but keep an open mind. Ignore religion. Don't indulge in drugs or alcohol, no matter how many people and organizations tell you it's not bad and no matter how much propaganda (internet or elsewhere) tells you so. I've smoked pot in the past and I've seen all of the propaganda and while I'm against prohibition, it's a thing that clouds the mind and the body. This metaphorical? soul I'm talking about is clouded by such things. It's clouded by getting sucked into reality tv shows. Clouded by being closed-minded about many subjects.
I believe the best way to live your life is to be open minded about EVERYTHING except that which can cloud your body, your mind, your soul. This is not religious babble, this is my logic. 50 years from now when I'm considerably older, I don't want to be a drug/ alcohol addled old guy who can't think for himself and needs help in everyday life. I want to have my mind and my body intact. Alcohol is just a chemical that happened to be discovered and is now making greedy people a lot of money. Pro-alcohol propaganda is EVERYWHERE in society, and people from EVERY walk of life are sucked in by it. This stupid chemical is basically poison. A world where people have to intoxicate themselves to be naturally social is a sad one. Why is society like this? As for marijuana, it dulls the mind, the senses, the perceptions... It is not something anybody who wants to consider themselves wise should indulge in. Of course you'll see a whole load of propaganda arguing that it's the healthiest thing since water, but THC is a foreign body when it passes the blood-brain barrier just as alcohol is. Make your body and your brain a temple, like the quote below. And try to keep a positive outlook on life and the world, don't let misguided people drag you down. People should eat simple healthy food, and drink water. Don't be a customer of a diseased society. Go fucking set yourself free. Listen to some good music, even if it can often be quite pretentious I honestly believe it can nourish the soul. So many in society have no souls, because of the way they are living. Religion isn't the cure or the answer, religion is bullshit. Self-searching, honesty, good healthy natural living and food and drink, good honest human relationships, friends, and no pettiness/ squabbling/ jealousy/ pretentiousness... Don't live your life for others, live it for what you believe is right. Love the world, love humanity. No, I'm not a hippie, as I might be called in a derogatory manner for what I just said, I just want my species to get a fucking grip!
We're all just biological lifeforms, a miracle of molecules and atoms, an evolution on a rock that happened to have the right conditions, that no doubt happens in countless places and times in existence (the past, the future, distant galaxies, anywhere you can imagine it's possible...) where the conditions are also right.
There is a type of soul though. Humanity evolved from the animals because of our ingenuity, our intelligence, our resilience above the rest. Why is it now that people are herded like sheep or ant farms, and so few think for themselves? We're living in crowded conditions, watching the same programmed 'programmes' on our media devices, reading the same bullshit, we're no different from animals except that so many of has have a delusion of 'sentience', of independent thought, of being superior to animals. Animals socialise, animals frolick, animals hunt prey to feed themselves and their family. Animals don't sit in shacks gluttonously gorging themselves on every scrap until they become quite the fat bastards, all while watching the 392424th series of the latest reality TV show everyone is talking about on headbook.
Human society is crowding people together, yet making them more alone than ever, and making them all think and watch and see and do the same things much like something from an Orwellian novel. It's quite ridiculous. The funniest thing is those in power are just as deluded as anyone, because space and time are above it all. The one way for humanity to do good would have been to work together for common goals (scientific discoveries and not just the profitable ones, the advancement of our species, searching the stars, finding a great meaning) and those running our world fucked that up in favour for a little hedonism, or profit, or control, which holds no true meaning on earth or humanity or society or existence, except some little chemicals in their frail biological brains (dopamine and such).
To get back to the subject, I believe there is soul in humanity, and that soul is managing to avoid all of these pitfalls and downfalls that society throws at you, remaining an individual after it all. Fuck the corporations, fuck the politicians, fuck the breweries telling everyone in society they need to drink to be normal, fuck the governments for cramping people together and making them unhappy, fuck the big pharmaceutical companies, fuck the big religious heads pretending to be divine while hoarding wealth while children starve on other parts of the world, all of those above and the many more like them are the great enemies to humanity.
Pursue philosophy but never get stuck to a viewpoint or single mindset. Pursue science with interest but keep an open mind. Ignore religion. Don't indulge in drugs or alcohol, no matter how many people and organizations tell you it's not bad and no matter how much propaganda (internet or elsewhere) tells you so. I've smoked pot in the past and I've seen all of the propaganda and while I'm against prohibition, it's a thing that clouds the mind and the body. This metaphorical? soul I'm talking about is clouded by such things. It's clouded by getting sucked into reality tv shows. Clouded by being closed-minded about many subjects.
I believe the best way to live your life is to be open minded about EVERYTHING except that which can cloud your body, your mind, your soul. This is not religious babble, this is my logic. 50 years from now when I'm considerably older, I don't want to be a drug/ alcohol addled old guy who can't think for himself and needs help in everyday life. I want to have my mind and my body intact. Alcohol is just a chemical that happened to be discovered and is now making greedy people a lot of money. Pro-alcohol propaganda is EVERYWHERE in society, and people from EVERY walk of life are sucked in by it. This stupid chemical is basically poison. A world where people have to intoxicate themselves to be naturally social is a sad one. Why is society like this? As for marijuana, it dulls the mind, the senses, the perceptions... It is not something anybody who wants to consider themselves wise should indulge in. Of course you'll see a whole load of propaganda arguing that it's the healthiest thing since water, but THC is a foreign body when it passes the blood-brain barrier just as alcohol is. Make your body and your brain a temple, like the quote below. And try to keep a positive outlook on life and the world, don't let misguided people drag you down. People should eat simple healthy food, and drink water. Don't be a customer of a diseased society. Go fucking set yourself free. Listen to some good music, even if it can often be quite pretentious I honestly believe it can nourish the soul. So many in society have no souls, because of the way they are living. Religion isn't the cure or the answer, religion is bullshit. Self-searching, honesty, good healthy natural living and food and drink, good honest human relationships, friends, and no pettiness/ squabbling/ jealousy/ pretentiousness... Don't live your life for others, live it for what you believe is right. Love the world, love humanity. No, I'm not a hippie, as I might be called in a derogatory manner for what I just said, I just want my species to get a fucking grip!
14 September 2012
The singularity beckons
I prefer to call the so-called 'big-bang' type event scientists often talk about a 'big spread', because that's essentially what it was. All matter in our present universe - every tiny particle that makes up every last damned atom and neutrino and quark and higgs boson out there, all occupied a single tiny point. The singularity. It exploded, or so they say, spreading matter throughout emptiness at a speed greater than light. The expansion still continues, we are a consequence left in its path.
I think this is an infinite cycle, and natural gravity (even black holes!) over the aeons will result in all of the galaxies and nebulae and so on once again reverting to a singularity point, at which point the big spread will happen again.
Another theory of mine is that biological life is very common between the 'spread' and 'singularity reversions', as a natural consequence of the correct conditions (goldilocks zone perhaps) for life to evolve. I've said it in past posts and I'll say it again - I honestly believe we live infinite times, because of the nature of these cycles. The good news, again, is that when you are dead, you have no perception of the passing of time. Therefore, relative to your perceptions, you are ALWAYS alive, even if at vastly differing points in space and time, even if manifested in ridiculously different forms of life or perhaps even something else.
Be happy and enjoy your life, do not be sad or be petty because nothing has ever been or will ever be significant, all is relative. Don't worry about death, because the very nature of death is just part of an infinite cycle which every last little particle, atom, quark, neutrino, higgs boson... is all part of, the particles that make up you and I in the ever bashing swaying sea of atoms and molecules that we call the universe included. Perhaps there is some sort of transcended consciousness, above biological life forms. Perhaps the singularity was god, and everything is just its will. I'm not one for religion, and any 'god' would obviously just be relative, but it'd damn well be the closest thing!
Have a good weekend.
I think this is an infinite cycle, and natural gravity (even black holes!) over the aeons will result in all of the galaxies and nebulae and so on once again reverting to a singularity point, at which point the big spread will happen again.
Another theory of mine is that biological life is very common between the 'spread' and 'singularity reversions', as a natural consequence of the correct conditions (goldilocks zone perhaps) for life to evolve. I've said it in past posts and I'll say it again - I honestly believe we live infinite times, because of the nature of these cycles. The good news, again, is that when you are dead, you have no perception of the passing of time. Therefore, relative to your perceptions, you are ALWAYS alive, even if at vastly differing points in space and time, even if manifested in ridiculously different forms of life or perhaps even something else.
Be happy and enjoy your life, do not be sad or be petty because nothing has ever been or will ever be significant, all is relative. Don't worry about death, because the very nature of death is just part of an infinite cycle which every last little particle, atom, quark, neutrino, higgs boson... is all part of, the particles that make up you and I in the ever bashing swaying sea of atoms and molecules that we call the universe included. Perhaps there is some sort of transcended consciousness, above biological life forms. Perhaps the singularity was god, and everything is just its will. I'm not one for religion, and any 'god' would obviously just be relative, but it'd damn well be the closest thing!
Have a good weekend.
11 September 2012
Libya and Syria are parallels. Both were/ are being invaded by group/s of terrorists/ Islamist extremists funded by outside sources. Both governments defended their country with its armed forces, as would any leadership when its country is being sieged by terrorists. Both subjects of worldwide media propaganda against their governments.
Ultimately this would seem to be a part of some plan to destabilise foreign governments. The more stable, even secular and progressives, to be replaced with the far more radical even approaching fanatical. Hard line Islamists with various links to extremist factions such as al qaeda, including the LIFG who orchestrated the invasion of Libya. Conveniently, a man who played a significant role in these events - Abdelhakim Belhadj - released under a huge amnesty of (former) terrorists/ extremists by Gaddafi,despite leaving the country - was returned to Libya by the CIA.
It seems crazy and illogical, that western leaders might hand power to their enemies, the very people they're fighting in countries such as Afghanistan. Then you look at the big picture. You know, a few years -- perhaps a decade down the line. War is profit. Libya, Syria, Egypt... These are the Afghanistan's of the future. Between these politicians, and the powerful people/ corporations/ ammunition and energy companies who lobby them (as well as the weapons makers, who want the big wheel that makes them all their money to keep turning) have it all planned out, and the media has the propaganda side covered to keep the public blind to all of this. But remember, there's no profit in peace. Capitalism and religion are the biggest enemies to humanity, along with human nature!
21 July 2012
Looking, for which answers I am unsure...
Do you ever feel like just escaping? I wake up every morning for work
feeling like shit. I feel like shit at shit work with shit bosses. I
come in, play games/ watch tv and films for some time/ listen to music.
One form of escapism, and I can't help but think it's far from ideal. Then I don't feel like going to sleep because I anticipate the next morning, so I put that off as long as I
can. Then I do go to sleep, wake up, and the cycle begins again.
I've been thinking about this a lot, and I would like to know if there is there any form of meditation that can slow down our perception of time (or make our mind be outside of it?) and increase the levels which our thoughts can reach, essentially our clarity?
I browse the internet for long durations of time, have been for many years now, but never really get close to a normal discussion, close understanding of my fellow human beings, closer understanding of the universe, none of the things I really want. I spend hours daily playing online games, not because I enjoy them, but because they're sufficient forms of escapism. There is no genuine, real social company on these games, or at many of the social/ communication mediums online. Why is it in 2012 the internet hasn't come up with a sophisticated social medium? Just endless IRC chatrooms where people never talk, endless forums with no one ever really connecting, many image boards and games where so many people don't know any other...
I don't at all know what answers I'm really looking for. If anyone has them, please, please, comment. Talk about your life, what you want, what you don't want, what you think about society, what you think about the universe, whatever. Anything. I just need some kind of discussion to keep myself sane.
A lot of people are good at heart. I hold the belief that people are blinded daily by petty things and their own or other peoples pettiness... As well as that, by chemicals, hormones, by what society is telling them to be or not be, believe or not believe, by their peers, by their family, by their environment... Humanity ascends beyond all of these things and it's the one thing every human being has in common, but shows so little of. That sounds very pretentious, but it's true. We're the one big collective, yet so many of us are alone, through our own feelings and perceptions or through other factors. Many of us seek answers in philosophy, in space, time, and the universe, in science, and never come any closer to them. Others look in religion and have what I think to be a comforting delusion of answers. Others gave up long ago and just escape into the mindlessness of daily life and the cogs turning in the big machine that is society, or find other ways to escape. Everyone is so apathetic.
I've been thinking about this a lot, and I would like to know if there is there any form of meditation that can slow down our perception of time (or make our mind be outside of it?) and increase the levels which our thoughts can reach, essentially our clarity?
I browse the internet for long durations of time, have been for many years now, but never really get close to a normal discussion, close understanding of my fellow human beings, closer understanding of the universe, none of the things I really want. I spend hours daily playing online games, not because I enjoy them, but because they're sufficient forms of escapism. There is no genuine, real social company on these games, or at many of the social/ communication mediums online. Why is it in 2012 the internet hasn't come up with a sophisticated social medium? Just endless IRC chatrooms where people never talk, endless forums with no one ever really connecting, many image boards and games where so many people don't know any other...
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I don't at all know what answers I'm really looking for. If anyone has them, please, please, comment. Talk about your life, what you want, what you don't want, what you think about society, what you think about the universe, whatever. Anything. I just need some kind of discussion to keep myself sane.
A lot of people are good at heart. I hold the belief that people are blinded daily by petty things and their own or other peoples pettiness... As well as that, by chemicals, hormones, by what society is telling them to be or not be, believe or not believe, by their peers, by their family, by their environment... Humanity ascends beyond all of these things and it's the one thing every human being has in common, but shows so little of. That sounds very pretentious, but it's true. We're the one big collective, yet so many of us are alone, through our own feelings and perceptions or through other factors. Many of us seek answers in philosophy, in space, time, and the universe, in science, and never come any closer to them. Others look in religion and have what I think to be a comforting delusion of answers. Others gave up long ago and just escape into the mindlessness of daily life and the cogs turning in the big machine that is society, or find other ways to escape. Everyone is so apathetic.
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| From Charlie Chaplin's 'Modern Times'. |
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| From Pink Floyd's 'The Wall'. |
6 April 2012
Anger, repression, sheep
Why does society repress anger?
Children are funnelled through schools and institutions, where the process often rips every shred of their individuality from them, turning them into a member of one or another group of sheep. At least one constant is that all anger is completely discouraged. Any anger expressed by one student towards another student, teacher, or anything in particular is treated in a highly punitive manner. This perfectly normal human emotion is put out like a candle. People often grow up with emotional and relationship problems and more and more often difficulty expressing themselves. Psychological and mental disorders continue to rise in frequency among the population.
There are a group of people who remain unaffected by the 'disorders'. They are usually the club-going, reality television watching so-called 'cool' of our society. They are the people who are considered sociable and popular. They take little notice of the world around them, including all of the war, death, disease, starvation, inequality and injustice in the world. They say ignorance is bliss, and in the case of this group, it is certainly true. They even take little notice of the politics in their own country, and make it a cool thing to do so. In most social venues, workplaces, educational institutions and generally everywhere, one who talks about politics is flagged a bore. It is discouraged through a widespread social campaign of negative feedback to mention politics. So the citizens of most of countries of the developed world will not realise what is going on in their countries until it is too late - when their own governments happen to be closing the bars down on you like caged animals. The trends are already beginning to appear. Rising rates of police brutality, all time high numbers for police and military forces (often justified by stupid wars/ invasions for oil covered with the excuse of a stupid excuse for a stupid war). Our great grandparents and our recent ancestors would have been as angry as hell about the way the world is, if they lived now. But we're a population of sheep. We watch our television, swallow whatever nonsense and misinformation the politicians and tabloids spew out at us (1984 anyone?) (or completely take no notice of it as reality TV and celebrity gossip is of more importance to us or the other sources of media and information from everywhere is just too great for us to take notice of the things that truly matter (Brave new world, anyone?)).
For the minority who are aware of the truth and actively seek it, there are the prisons, mental institutions and cemeteries of the world. I can only hope there are good beings who do not have a similar nature to us, out there in the universe. I may not have faith and hope in humanity, but of the cosmos outside in which we originated as a speck of dust, I am unsure, and that alone prevents me from getting down and depressed about our shitty little world. I know space, time and existence is so vast, that none of this really matters, and ironically that is a good thing.
I'll leave you with this brilliant song from the brilliant Pink Floyd. Good luck in life, citizen of the world which I wish was a better place than it is.
Children are funnelled through schools and institutions, where the process often rips every shred of their individuality from them, turning them into a member of one or another group of sheep. At least one constant is that all anger is completely discouraged. Any anger expressed by one student towards another student, teacher, or anything in particular is treated in a highly punitive manner. This perfectly normal human emotion is put out like a candle. People often grow up with emotional and relationship problems and more and more often difficulty expressing themselves. Psychological and mental disorders continue to rise in frequency among the population.
There are a group of people who remain unaffected by the 'disorders'. They are usually the club-going, reality television watching so-called 'cool' of our society. They are the people who are considered sociable and popular. They take little notice of the world around them, including all of the war, death, disease, starvation, inequality and injustice in the world. They say ignorance is bliss, and in the case of this group, it is certainly true. They even take little notice of the politics in their own country, and make it a cool thing to do so. In most social venues, workplaces, educational institutions and generally everywhere, one who talks about politics is flagged a bore. It is discouraged through a widespread social campaign of negative feedback to mention politics. So the citizens of most of countries of the developed world will not realise what is going on in their countries until it is too late - when their own governments happen to be closing the bars down on you like caged animals. The trends are already beginning to appear. Rising rates of police brutality, all time high numbers for police and military forces (often justified by stupid wars/ invasions for oil covered with the excuse of a stupid excuse for a stupid war). Our great grandparents and our recent ancestors would have been as angry as hell about the way the world is, if they lived now. But we're a population of sheep. We watch our television, swallow whatever nonsense and misinformation the politicians and tabloids spew out at us (1984 anyone?) (or completely take no notice of it as reality TV and celebrity gossip is of more importance to us or the other sources of media and information from everywhere is just too great for us to take notice of the things that truly matter (Brave new world, anyone?)).
For the minority who are aware of the truth and actively seek it, there are the prisons, mental institutions and cemeteries of the world. I can only hope there are good beings who do not have a similar nature to us, out there in the universe. I may not have faith and hope in humanity, but of the cosmos outside in which we originated as a speck of dust, I am unsure, and that alone prevents me from getting down and depressed about our shitty little world. I know space, time and existence is so vast, that none of this really matters, and ironically that is a good thing.
I'll leave you with this brilliant song from the brilliant Pink Floyd. Good luck in life, citizen of the world which I wish was a better place than it is.
2 January 2012
Good luck Ron Paul, defender of the US Consitution and of liberties, opposer of war and the federal reserve amongst other greedy and corrupt financial institutions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Paul
I am not American, however I have studied worldwide politics extensively and when it comes to the politics of the United States (not exclusive to the US of course, it is a similar situation in most countries due to the nature of politics), I am tired of the two party system in which whatever career politician with the most money and media influence seems to rise to victory in the polls. Ron Paul is remarkably different. The mainstream media running the political system over in the USA has ignored him, despite his many supporters. Until they could no longer do so.
I am not going to repeat here what has already been written and spoken about many times, but this man is a rare gem among high-profile politicians. He is different because his motives are actually do to the right and proper thing, rather than saving his own ass or pleasing some puppet masters pulling his strings. He is against war. He believes in many freedoms as per the US Constitution, which other politicians commonly ignore. Below is some reading on the man.
But please do your own research on him. I am pretty biased because I admire him a great deal, but I did come to that over time with objectivity. I believe he is the best possible candidate for the Presidency of the United States, along with Dennis Kucinich. Both happened to oppose the unjust intervention and backing up of Al-Qaeda linked militant Islamists in Libya, earlier in 2011. No more war games for oil, please.
6 November 2011
A dream
A place unknown in existence
a hidden fortress in the cosmos
Two death forms meet
from entirely different regions
together they lament their lives
They each progress to that again
on the home of their short-lived companion
a hidden fortress in the cosmos
Two death forms meet
from entirely different regions
together they lament their lives
They each progress to that again
on the home of their short-lived companion
26 October 2011
Propaganda, politicians, media, power
They are an unfortunate blight upon us.
Here is a reasonable summing up of the situation in Libya:
From http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=23474 by David Rothscum:
Here is a reasonable summing up of the situation in Libya:
From http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=23474 by David Rothscum:
How was Libya doing under the rule of Gadaffi? How bad did the people have it? Were they oppressed as we now commonly accept as fact? Let us look at the facts for a moment.
Before the chaos erupted, Libya had a lower incarceration rate than the Czech republic. It ranked 61st. Libya had the lowest infant mortality rate of all of Africa. Libya had the highest life expectancy of all of Africa. Less than 5% of the population was undernourished. In response to the rising food prices around the world, the government of Libya abolished ALL taxes on food.
People in Libya were rich. Libya had the highest gross domestic product (GDP) at purchasing power parity (PPP) per capita of all of Africa. The government took care to ensure that everyone in the country shared in the wealth. Libya had the highest Human Development Index of any country on the continent. The wealth was distributed equally. In Libya, a lower percentage of people lived below the poverty line than in the Netherlands.
How does Libya get so rich? The answer is oil. The country has a lot of oil, and does not allow foreign corporations to steal the resources while the population starves, unlike countries like Nigeria, a country that is basically run by Shell.
Like any country, Libya suffers from a government with corrupt bureaucrats that try to gain a bigger portion of the pie at the cost of everyone else. In response to this, Kadaffi called for the oil revenue to be distributed directly to the people, because in his opinion, the government was failing the people. However, unlike the article claims, Kadaffi is not the president of Libya. In fact he holds no official position in the government. This is the big mistake that people make. They claim that Kadaffi rules over Libya when in fact he doesn't, his position is more or less ceremonial. He should be compared to a founding father.
The true leader of Libya is an indirectly elected prime-minister. The current prime-minister is Baghdadi Mahmudi. Calling Khadaffi the leader of Libya is comparable to calling Akihito the leader of Japan. Contrary to what your media is sketching, opinions in Libya vary. Some people support Gadaffi but want Mahmudi out. Others want both out. Many just want to live their life in peace. However, effort is taken to sketch the appearance of a popular revolt against the supposed leader of Libya, Gadaffi, when in fact he is just the architect of Libya's current political system, a mixture of pan-Arabism, socialism, and Islamic government.
Videos of Pro-Gaddafi protests are disappearing from Youtube as we speak. "Pro Gaddafi Anti Baghdadi Mahmudi demonstrations in" youtube.com/watch?v=Ce5fLGNg0sk is gone. "Pro Gaddafi protests in front of Libyan embassy London" youtube.com/watch?v=pRwv0Ac8qbc Is gone. Youtube deletes any video containing gore normally, except when it's from Libya. Apparently more traumatizing to it's viewers than chopped up bodies are Libyans who do not jump on the bandwagon and enter the streets to force Gadaffi out.
Are the protesters in Libya comparable to the protesters in Egypt and Tunisia? Not at all. The governments reaction is more violent, and obviously excessive violence is being used. However let us look for a moment at the actions of the protesters. The building of the the general people's congress, the parliament of Libya, was put on fire by angry protestors. This is comparable to protesters putting the United States Capitol on fire. Do you think that for even a moment the US government would sit idly by as protesters put the US capitol on fire?
The riots erupting now are not secular youth desiring change, or anything like we saw in Egypt and Tunisia. A group calling itself "Islamic Emirate of Barka", the former name of the North-Western part of Libya, has taken numerous hostages, and killed two policemen. This is not a recent development. On Friday, the 18th of February, the group stole 70 military vehicles after attacking a port and killing four soldiers. Unfortunately, a military colonel has joined the group and provided them with further weapons. The uprising started in the eastern city of Benghazi. The Italian foreign minister has raised his fears of an Islamic Emirate of Benghazi declaring itself independent.
So where does this sudden uprising come from? The answer is that the same groups the US has been funding for decades are now taking their chance to gain control over the nation. A group recently arrested in Libya consisted of dozens of foreign nationals that were involved in numerous acts of looting and sabotage. The Libyan government could not rule out links to Israel.
Great Britain funded an Al Qaeda cell in Libya, in an attempt to assassinate Gadaffi. The main opposition group in Libya now is the National Front for the Salvation of Libya. This opposition group is being funded by Saudi Arabia, the CIA, and French Intelligence. This group unified itself with other opposition groups, to become the National Conference for the Libyan Opposition. It was this organization that called for the "Day of Rage" that plunged Libya into chaos on February 17 of this year.
It did this in Benghazi, a conservative city that has always been opposed to Gadaffi's rule. It should be noted that the National Front for the Salvation of Libya is well armed. In 1996 the group tried to unleash a revolution in the eastern part of Libya before. It used the Libyan National Army, the armed division of the NFSL to begin this failed uprising.
Why is the United States so opposed to Gadaffi? He is the main threat to US hegemony in Africa, because he attempts to unite the continent against the United States. This concept is called the United States of Africa. In fact, Gadaffi holds all sorts of ideas that are contrary to US interests. The man blames the United States government for the creation of HIV. He claims that Israel is behind the assasination of Martin Luther King and president John. F. Kennedy. He says that the 9/11 hijackers were trained in the US. He also urged Libyans to donate blood to Americans after 9/11. Khadaffi is also the last of a generation of moderate socialist pan-Arab revolutionaries that is still in power, after Nasser and Hussein have been eliminated, and Syria has aligned itself with Iran.
The United States and Israel however have no interest in a strong Arab world. In fact it seems that elementary to the plan is bringing Libya to its knees through chaos and anarchy. In late 2010, the United Kingdom was still propping up the Libyan government through lucrative arms sales. Nothing is a better guarantee to destroy Libya than a bloody civil war. The tribal system that is still strong in Libya is useful to exploit to generate such a war since Libya has historically been divided into various tribal groups.
This is also why the Libyan government responds by importing mercenaries. Tribal allegiances go before allegiance to the government, especially in Benghazi, and thus the central government has no control over the eastern part of the country anymore. The alternative to mercenaries is a conflict between the various ethnic groups. Gadaffi has tried for 41 years to make the country more homogeneous, but opposition groups funded by outside forced will take little more than a few days to put the country back into the 19th century, before the region was conquered and unified by Europeans. The violence is indeed excessive, but everyone seems to forget that the situation is not the same as in Tunis and Egypt. Tribal ties play a far greater role, and thus the conflict will unfortunately be bloodier.
Please remember at all times that the violent Libyan civil war unfolding now is not comparable to the revolutions seen in Tunisia and Egypt. Both of these revolutions involved peaceful protesters suffering from poverty, in opposition to their corrupt governments. The chaos in Libyan consists of a mixture of tribal conflicts, conflict over oil revenue (since most oil is in the east of the country), radical Islamists opposed to Gadaffi's system of government, and outside destabilization by Western funded exile groups.
Gadaffi took control in a bloodless coup from a sick monarch away for medical treatment 41 years ago. His ideology is based on unification and he attempted to peacefully merge his country with Egypt and Syria. It would take a miracle for the violence unfolding now to lead to a single stable democratic government in Libya, with full control over the entire country. The country is more than twice the size of Pakistan, but with 6 million inhabitants. Endless deserts divide many of the cities in the nation. If anything we should ask ourselves how many more nations will be shattered into pieces in the coming months, as the world cheers.
Before the chaos erupted, Libya had a lower incarceration rate than the Czech republic. It ranked 61st. Libya had the lowest infant mortality rate of all of Africa. Libya had the highest life expectancy of all of Africa. Less than 5% of the population was undernourished. In response to the rising food prices around the world, the government of Libya abolished ALL taxes on food.
People in Libya were rich. Libya had the highest gross domestic product (GDP) at purchasing power parity (PPP) per capita of all of Africa. The government took care to ensure that everyone in the country shared in the wealth. Libya had the highest Human Development Index of any country on the continent. The wealth was distributed equally. In Libya, a lower percentage of people lived below the poverty line than in the Netherlands.
How does Libya get so rich? The answer is oil. The country has a lot of oil, and does not allow foreign corporations to steal the resources while the population starves, unlike countries like Nigeria, a country that is basically run by Shell.
Like any country, Libya suffers from a government with corrupt bureaucrats that try to gain a bigger portion of the pie at the cost of everyone else. In response to this, Kadaffi called for the oil revenue to be distributed directly to the people, because in his opinion, the government was failing the people. However, unlike the article claims, Kadaffi is not the president of Libya. In fact he holds no official position in the government. This is the big mistake that people make. They claim that Kadaffi rules over Libya when in fact he doesn't, his position is more or less ceremonial. He should be compared to a founding father.
The true leader of Libya is an indirectly elected prime-minister. The current prime-minister is Baghdadi Mahmudi. Calling Khadaffi the leader of Libya is comparable to calling Akihito the leader of Japan. Contrary to what your media is sketching, opinions in Libya vary. Some people support Gadaffi but want Mahmudi out. Others want both out. Many just want to live their life in peace. However, effort is taken to sketch the appearance of a popular revolt against the supposed leader of Libya, Gadaffi, when in fact he is just the architect of Libya's current political system, a mixture of pan-Arabism, socialism, and Islamic government.
Videos of Pro-Gaddafi protests are disappearing from Youtube as we speak. "Pro Gaddafi Anti Baghdadi Mahmudi demonstrations in" youtube.com/watch?v=Ce5fLGNg0sk is gone. "Pro Gaddafi protests in front of Libyan embassy London" youtube.com/watch?v=pRwv0Ac8qbc Is gone. Youtube deletes any video containing gore normally, except when it's from Libya. Apparently more traumatizing to it's viewers than chopped up bodies are Libyans who do not jump on the bandwagon and enter the streets to force Gadaffi out.
Are the protesters in Libya comparable to the protesters in Egypt and Tunisia? Not at all. The governments reaction is more violent, and obviously excessive violence is being used. However let us look for a moment at the actions of the protesters. The building of the the general people's congress, the parliament of Libya, was put on fire by angry protestors. This is comparable to protesters putting the United States Capitol on fire. Do you think that for even a moment the US government would sit idly by as protesters put the US capitol on fire?
The riots erupting now are not secular youth desiring change, or anything like we saw in Egypt and Tunisia. A group calling itself "Islamic Emirate of Barka", the former name of the North-Western part of Libya, has taken numerous hostages, and killed two policemen. This is not a recent development. On Friday, the 18th of February, the group stole 70 military vehicles after attacking a port and killing four soldiers. Unfortunately, a military colonel has joined the group and provided them with further weapons. The uprising started in the eastern city of Benghazi. The Italian foreign minister has raised his fears of an Islamic Emirate of Benghazi declaring itself independent.
So where does this sudden uprising come from? The answer is that the same groups the US has been funding for decades are now taking their chance to gain control over the nation. A group recently arrested in Libya consisted of dozens of foreign nationals that were involved in numerous acts of looting and sabotage. The Libyan government could not rule out links to Israel.
Great Britain funded an Al Qaeda cell in Libya, in an attempt to assassinate Gadaffi. The main opposition group in Libya now is the National Front for the Salvation of Libya. This opposition group is being funded by Saudi Arabia, the CIA, and French Intelligence. This group unified itself with other opposition groups, to become the National Conference for the Libyan Opposition. It was this organization that called for the "Day of Rage" that plunged Libya into chaos on February 17 of this year.
It did this in Benghazi, a conservative city that has always been opposed to Gadaffi's rule. It should be noted that the National Front for the Salvation of Libya is well armed. In 1996 the group tried to unleash a revolution in the eastern part of Libya before. It used the Libyan National Army, the armed division of the NFSL to begin this failed uprising.
Why is the United States so opposed to Gadaffi? He is the main threat to US hegemony in Africa, because he attempts to unite the continent against the United States. This concept is called the United States of Africa. In fact, Gadaffi holds all sorts of ideas that are contrary to US interests. The man blames the United States government for the creation of HIV. He claims that Israel is behind the assasination of Martin Luther King and president John. F. Kennedy. He says that the 9/11 hijackers were trained in the US. He also urged Libyans to donate blood to Americans after 9/11. Khadaffi is also the last of a generation of moderate socialist pan-Arab revolutionaries that is still in power, after Nasser and Hussein have been eliminated, and Syria has aligned itself with Iran.
The United States and Israel however have no interest in a strong Arab world. In fact it seems that elementary to the plan is bringing Libya to its knees through chaos and anarchy. In late 2010, the United Kingdom was still propping up the Libyan government through lucrative arms sales. Nothing is a better guarantee to destroy Libya than a bloody civil war. The tribal system that is still strong in Libya is useful to exploit to generate such a war since Libya has historically been divided into various tribal groups.
This is also why the Libyan government responds by importing mercenaries. Tribal allegiances go before allegiance to the government, especially in Benghazi, and thus the central government has no control over the eastern part of the country anymore. The alternative to mercenaries is a conflict between the various ethnic groups. Gadaffi has tried for 41 years to make the country more homogeneous, but opposition groups funded by outside forced will take little more than a few days to put the country back into the 19th century, before the region was conquered and unified by Europeans. The violence is indeed excessive, but everyone seems to forget that the situation is not the same as in Tunis and Egypt. Tribal ties play a far greater role, and thus the conflict will unfortunately be bloodier.
Please remember at all times that the violent Libyan civil war unfolding now is not comparable to the revolutions seen in Tunisia and Egypt. Both of these revolutions involved peaceful protesters suffering from poverty, in opposition to their corrupt governments. The chaos in Libyan consists of a mixture of tribal conflicts, conflict over oil revenue (since most oil is in the east of the country), radical Islamists opposed to Gadaffi's system of government, and outside destabilization by Western funded exile groups.
Gadaffi took control in a bloodless coup from a sick monarch away for medical treatment 41 years ago. His ideology is based on unification and he attempted to peacefully merge his country with Egypt and Syria. It would take a miracle for the violence unfolding now to lead to a single stable democratic government in Libya, with full control over the entire country. The country is more than twice the size of Pakistan, but with 6 million inhabitants. Endless deserts divide many of the cities in the nation. If anything we should ask ourselves how many more nations will be shattered into pieces in the coming months, as the world cheers.
That was the situation.
Now Muammar Gaddafi has died at the hands of a bloodthirsty lynch mob of militant Islamists who now control the country, put in power by foreign leaders with oil interests. They plan to in their own words rollback any laws introduced by Gaddafi which were 'contrary to Islam' and impose full Sharia law upon the people of Libya.
See also, another objective source: http://blogs.dailyrecord.co.uk/georgegalloway/2011/10/well-pay-a-high-price-for-meddling-in-libya.html
OSBORNE, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, is of course the supreme money-changer in the land and I thought of him as the gruesome killing of the Gaddafis was playing endlessly on the news.
A few years ago in Corfu, a remarkable party took place hosted by the Rothschild bankers - who could buy and sell the likes of Osborne.
During the weekend celebrations, guests included Osborne and the Lord Peter Mandelson.
There was also a dinner to celebrate the birthday of one of Rupert Murdoch's children.
Saif al-Islam al Ghaddafi, the favoured son of the Libyan dictator, has also enjoyed the Rothschild hospitality on Corfu.
Yet when the Gaddafi family were being slaughtered like butcher meat, not a cheep emerged from Saif's dancing partners.
And, of course, to no doubt great relief all round, there will conveniently never be a cheep again from the deceased about their sense of betrayal by those whose pockets they filled.
No trial in which the truth of the Lockerbie massacre can be ascertained.
No cross-examination about Mr Blair's role in the release of Al-Megrahi from Greenock jail, about his alleged consultancy to the Colonel's Sovereign Wealth Fund (actually Libya's Fund but, same thing), which he denies, about his mysterious visits to kiss the Colonel in secret in the tent at Sirte (now destroyed, the city that is not the tent).
There will be no release - neither will the papers be found in a burning building in Tripoli - of the Dear Muammar, would like to buy some more...? letters the British government were sending the old brute just days before the Libyan revolution.
No exposure of how it came to pass that (to take just one example) Abdel Hakim Belhaj was subjected, he says, to illegal "rendition" by British agents and delivered via Guantanamo Bay to Gaddafi's torture tables in Tripoli.
How the same man became the military leader of the revolutionaries in Tripoli, being helped into power by the same people who'd kidnapped him and delivered him to Gaddafi for electric shocks.
Shocked? You shouldn't be. There's more, much more.
Like the fact that the key members of the new "democratic" government in Libya (the one whose fighters, chanting the name of God, dragged a 69-year-old captive naked through the streets of Sirte, before placing his corpse on show in a shopping centre so that people could crouch beside the cadaver and take pictures of themselves grinning beside it on their mobile phones) are almost all men who were Gaddafi's murdering, torturing, thieving ministers.
Until of course, the revolution broke out, or are self-confessed agents of the British or American intelligence agencies.
Remember that you heard it here, dear readers.
IThis Libyan story is not at an end.
and This is merely the end of the beginning.
The day will come when, like in Afghanistan, people will wonder why we did what we did and for whom? I was right about the X Factor, trust me, I'm right about this too.
'To great relief there will never be a cheep again from the deceased about their betrayal by those whose pockets they filled'
During the weekend celebrations, guests included Osborne and the Lord Peter Mandelson.
There was also a dinner to celebrate the birthday of one of Rupert Murdoch's children.
Saif al-Islam al Ghaddafi, the favoured son of the Libyan dictator, has also enjoyed the Rothschild hospitality on Corfu.
Yet when the Gaddafi family were being slaughtered like butcher meat, not a cheep emerged from Saif's dancing partners.
And, of course, to no doubt great relief all round, there will conveniently never be a cheep again from the deceased about their sense of betrayal by those whose pockets they filled.
No trial in which the truth of the Lockerbie massacre can be ascertained.
No cross-examination about Mr Blair's role in the release of Al-Megrahi from Greenock jail, about his alleged consultancy to the Colonel's Sovereign Wealth Fund (actually Libya's Fund but, same thing), which he denies, about his mysterious visits to kiss the Colonel in secret in the tent at Sirte (now destroyed, the city that is not the tent).
There will be no release - neither will the papers be found in a burning building in Tripoli - of the Dear Muammar, would like to buy some more...? letters the British government were sending the old brute just days before the Libyan revolution.
No exposure of how it came to pass that (to take just one example) Abdel Hakim Belhaj was subjected, he says, to illegal "rendition" by British agents and delivered via Guantanamo Bay to Gaddafi's torture tables in Tripoli.
How the same man became the military leader of the revolutionaries in Tripoli, being helped into power by the same people who'd kidnapped him and delivered him to Gaddafi for electric shocks.
Shocked? You shouldn't be. There's more, much more.
Like the fact that the key members of the new "democratic" government in Libya (the one whose fighters, chanting the name of God, dragged a 69-year-old captive naked through the streets of Sirte, before placing his corpse on show in a shopping centre so that people could crouch beside the cadaver and take pictures of themselves grinning beside it on their mobile phones) are almost all men who were Gaddafi's murdering, torturing, thieving ministers.
Until of course, the revolution broke out, or are self-confessed agents of the British or American intelligence agencies.
Remember that you heard it here, dear readers.
IThis Libyan story is not at an end.
and This is merely the end of the beginning.
The day will come when, like in Afghanistan, people will wonder why we did what we did and for whom? I was right about the X Factor, trust me, I'm right about this too.
'To great relief there will never be a cheep again from the deceased about their betrayal by those whose pockets they filled'
My outlook upon the current state world is bleak. It's a sad state of affairs. Fuck the system, fuck the power hungry corrupt ogliarchs, oil companies, weapons companies. Fuck the politicians who enable all of this. I hope they meet a deserved fate.
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