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The End Is Neigh!
 Their beliefs are bonkers, but
they are at the heart of power.
US Christian fundamentalists
are driving Bush's Middle East policy
George Monbiot Tuesday April 20, 2004The Guardian
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To understand what is happening in the Middle East, you must
first understand what is happening in Texas. To understand what
is happening there, you should read the resolutions passed at
the state's Republican party conventions last month. Take a look,
for example, at the decisions made in Harris County, which covers
much of Houston.
The delegates began by nodding through a few uncontroversial
matters: homosexuality is contrary to the truths ordained by God;
"any mechanism to process, license, record, register or monitor
the ownership of guns" should be repealed; income tax,
inheritance tax, capital gains tax and corporation tax should
be abolished; and immigrants should be deterred by electric
fences. Thus fortified,they turned to the real issue: the affairs
of a small state 7,000 miles away. It was then, according to a
participant, that the "screaming and near fist fights" began.
I don't know what the original motion said, but apparently it was
"watered down significantly" as a result of the shouting match.
The motion they adopted stated that Israel has an undivided claim
to Jerusalem and the West Bank, that Arab states should be
"pressured" to absorb refugees from Palestine, and that Israel
should do whatever it wishes in seeking to eliminate terrorism.
Good to see that the extremists didn't prevail then.
But why should all this be of such pressing interest to the people
of a state which is seldom celebrated for its fascination with foreign
affairs?The explanation is slowly becoming familiar to us, but we
still have some difficulty in taking it seriously.
In the United States, several million people have succumbed to an
extraordinary delusion.
In the 19th century, two immigrant preachers cobbled together a
series of unrelated passages from the Bible to create what appears
to be a consistent narrative: Jesus will return to Earth when certain
preconditions have been met.
The first of these was the establishment of a state of Israel. The
next involves Israel's occupation of the rest of its "biblical lands"
(most of the Middle East),
and the rebuilding of the Third Temple on the site now occupied
by the Dome of the Rock and al-Aqsa mosques. The legions of
the antichrist will then be deployed against Israel, and their war will
lead to a final showdown in the valley of Armageddon. The Jews
will either burn or convert to Christianity, and the Messiah will return
to Earth.
What makes the story so appealing to Christian fundamentalists is
that before the big battle begins, all "true believers" (ie those who
believe what they believe) will be lifted out of their clothes and
wafted up to heaven during an event called the Rapture. Not only
do the worthy get to sit at the right hand of God, but they will be able
to watch, from the best seats, their political and religious opponents
being devoured by boils, sores, locusts and frogs, during the seven
years of Tribulation which follow.
The true believers are now seeking to bring all this about. This
means staging confrontations at the old temple site (in 2000,
three US Christians were deported for trying to blow up the
mosques there), sponsoring Jewish settlements in the occupied
territories, demanding ever more US support for Israel, and
seeking to provoke a final battle with the Muslim world/Axis of
Evil/United Nations/ European Union/France or whoever the
legions of the antichrist turn out to be.
The believers are convinced that they will soon be rewarded for
their efforts. The antichrist is apparently walking among us, in the
guise of Kofi Annan, Javier Solana, Yasser Arafat or, more plausibly,
Silvio Berlusconi.
The Wal-Mart corporation is also a candidate (in my view a very
good one),because it wants to radio-tag its stock, thereby
exposing humankind to the Mark of the Beast.
The Mark of the Beast 666 will be a computer microchip called VeriChip or
VeriPay to be implanted in the hand or forehead. ...
By clicking on www.rapture ready.com, you can discover how
close you might be to flying out of your pyjamas. The infidels among
us should take note that the Rapture Index currently stands at 144,
just one point below the critical threshold, beyond which the sky will
be filled with floating nudists.
 Beast Government, Wild Weather and Israel are all trading at
the maximum five points (the EU is debat ing its constitution,
there was a freak hurricane in the south Atlantic, Hamas has
sworn to avenge the killing of its leaders), but the second
coming is currently being delayed by an unfortunate decline in
drug abuse among teenagers and a weak showing by the
antichrist (both of which score only two).
We can laugh at these people, but we should not dismiss
them. That their beliefs are bonkers does not mean they
are marginal. American pollsters believe that 15-18% of
US voters belong to churches or movements which
subscribe to these teachings. A survey in 1999 suggested
that this figure included 33% of Republicans. The best-selling
contemporary books in the US are the 12 volumes of the Left
Behind series, which provide what is usually described as a
"fictionalised" account of the Rapture (this, apparently,
distinguishes it from the other one), with plenty of dripping
details about what will happen to the rest of us. The people
who believe all this don'tbelieve it just a little; for them it is a
matter of life eternal and death.
And among them are some of the most powerful men in
America.
John Ashcroft, the attorney general, is a true believer, so are
several prominent senators and the House majority leader,
Tom DeLay.
Mr DeLay (who is also the co-author of the marvellously named
DeLay-Doolittle Amendment, postponing campaign finance
reforms) travelled to Israel last year to tell the Knesset that
"there is no middle ground, no moderate position worth taking".
So here we have a major political constituency - representing
much of the current president's core vote - in the most powerful
nation on Earth, which is actively seeking to provoke a new world
war.
Its members see the invasion of Iraq as a warm-up act, as
Revelation (9:14-15) maintains that four angels "which are
bound in the great river Euphrates" will be released "to slay
the third part of men". They batter down the doors of the White
House as soon as its support for Israel wavers: when Bush
asked Ariel Sharon to pull his tanks out of Jenin in 2002, he
received 100,000 angry emails from Christian fundamentalists,
and never mentioned the matter again.
The electoral calculation, crazy as it appears, works like this.
Governments stand or fall on domestic issues. For 85% of
the US electorate, the Middle East is a foreign issue, and
therefore of secondary interest when they enter the polling
booth.
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For 15% of the electorate, the Middle East is not just a domestic
matter, it's a personal one: if the president fails to start a
conflagration there, his core voters don't get to sit at the right hand
of God.
Bush, in other words, stands to lose fewer votes by encouraging
Israeli aggression than he stands to lose by restraining it. He would
be mad to listen to these people. He would also be mad not to.
George Monbiot's book The Age of Consent:
a Manifesto for a New World Order is now published in
paperback
... details. The Age of Consent The Age of Consent: A manifesto for a new world
order. 2003, 2004. ... The Age of Consent is powerful stuff. Monbiot ...
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... Jewish World Review May 2, 2002 / 20 Iyar, 5762 ... population that was Jewish in the
era of the Roman Empire were Jewish today, there would be 200 million Jews. ...
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++++ all of this was pree 911++++
| Heavy Water Terrorist Verses Super Patriot Pro Zionist misses the X-Nazis
+ H.R.M. Prince Liechtensteinbukkake of the Underground Right
Wing DJ’s Says!
They call every one Terrorist that won’t yield to there idea of there
world view and they do it politely with all of the worlds most sincere
hope for there recuperation's from the WW II Holocaust and so with
prayers and best wishes I say Farewell to Zionism.
Non Zionist is not Anti Zionist as many say however Fascism Nazism
are running a close second to what ever you want to call the current
crop of leadership WE put into power...
[ "What's this all about Nazi support both sides Nazi Fascist are the
same to Germany, its the Money Stupid Ideology is dead.
Blow off the Turner Diaries Kiss your Whiteofilicmongralassgoodbuy!
The Germans give the most support to the ones with the biggest
bucks & and with the DEEP Pockets of the USA The Zionist Jews
( who you claimed to hate) Trump the Saudis Oil Bucks Plus the
fact USA & Europeans Hide there Muhammad Copy Cat ways of
having more than one WIFEY, No My Babies Daddy, just good clean
fun of Clentonia Sure the WIFEY Knows, but so long as she is your
TOP HOE Mits Mumztheword YoU Dig!
So Lez see there's the Ho #1 You marry & Ho # 2 You like a lot
& then hallway Chippy you did over the banister in your # 3 girl
friends building. and the "lights out party in the supply 2nd's
Closet poke, kind of rough to think your the same as those
Polygamous Arabian's looking for the pay back for The Crusades,
the Inquisition and the reign of terror by Tomás de Torquemada,
now and there worst nightmare WOMD bust-out of despotic leaders
heavy water boys...
Bush, BCCI, Saddam, Noriega, bin Laden, and the Cleanup Wars ..... Bush may have been afraid of Noriega nationalizing
that property. ... and for George Bush, who used his "VietNam syndrome therapy" as an ... The Wackenhut Connection. ...
Savak/Savama, the symbol of censorship and torture in Iran... 1979 Revolution Savak, the Shah's secret police force.
The ... as possible. Savak was notorious throughout Iran for its brutal methods. The ...
10 trillion Kiloton Nuke poop! Grand Central Station
or the Kabba Stone its WW3 any way you slice it and
behind it all, bumping and grinding its way through the
cocktail circuit chanting "Vee Ver Not Nazis! Vee Ver Not
Nazis! Vee Ver Not Nazies! Vee! We veer Neutral! Vee
Ver Not Nazis!... Crush, destroy, annihilate, pulverize,
Zionism = Nazism is bullshit but we never here any of them ever complain about the
Israelis massive Nukerler arsenal, and there threats to annihilate Russia or Europe if “we”
don’t do what they want. Now that’s MAD [Mutually Assured Destruction< redux coldwar stile>]
or call it White Mail Blackmail whatever, it’s a working!! Might makes right.
“Live by the sword Die by the sword!.”
What if Christ returned and he’s... NOT A FUNDAMENTALIST CHRISTIAN OR A EUROPEAN JEW!
Say what is your guess of how many people were crucified before Christ how can you say
any one but the Roman ‘s did it blame the victim like a good Nazi. How many people were
crucified after Christ and how the hell do you get a German blue eyed Christ or St Nicholas a
Black Turk at best yet J.C. in your Holey Roman empire supporting your wet-dream of Something
For Nothing, forgiveness for your rape murder genocide of native peoples in his name what a
vicious con job my god is not a landlord or a pimp.
We want all of that smooth fine grind stuff so we can erase
the whole population and so you wont even look behind that
curtain at the man with his hands jiggling the power levers
while you fight and kill each other...Ha HA! HA!" ED!]
Never herd any anti Fascist Ass-holes claim they care about
the evil of Fascism , or act on any concern other than being
"right" about "There Big Picture" all of which serves to obscure
some very simple facts of the human condition and otherwise
generate an ( sophisticated ) air of despair while doing so.
Not seeking solution, just whining about problems lets you off
the hook!
“Lay down with bares Expect some Hairs...”
Breath is Prayer” ( a Sufi saying)
“Work is Worship “ (a Shaker Saying)
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Shortcut to (flash.htm) http://www.usatoday.com/graphics/news/gra/wtccollapse/flash.htm
An article "Why Did the World Trade Center Collapse?—Simple Analysis" by Zdenek P. Bazant and Yong Zhou appeared
in the on-line version of Journal of Engineering Mechanics ASCE, with the first version dated 9/13/01 and revisions dated
9/22/01 and 9/28/01. With such rapid publication after 9/11, it is evident that the paper must have been rushed, with no
time for full peer review. Let's take
a critical look at this paper. The basic theory of Bazant & Zhou is explained as follows, and sketched in their Fig. 1: