HATE INSTINCT TRIGGER THEORY (HITT)

Traditional humanism pretends to understand man, but it has been a tragic failure, because it did not realize the existence of a Hate Instinct Trigger Mechanism (HITT). HITT lays in wait, not to say in ambush, ready to be triggered by external circumstances. A related instinct is the Survival Mechanism (SM). The SM consists in full neuronal mobilization concentrated exclusively on one (survival) task. In particular, all motor neurons can fire at once, releasing super human strength. SM gets launch in desperate situations. I experienced it once, while torn off an ice couloir by an avalanche. HITT is a more sedate, more intellectual version of SM.

Hate is not an instinct as automatic as breathing. So not all individuals have it at all times. Instead, it’s an instinct that is generally triggered by external events… But once it gets triggered, it’s like Pandora box, a genie out of the bottle, and a powerful grip on all the soul. Hate is the weaponized arm of the Dark Side.

“The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either — but right through every human heart — and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained”

― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 

HITT is related, but differs from fluctuating lines.. HITT does not believe in “lines” or “hearts”, but in neurohormonal states. A neurohormonal state can be all-controlling. Once I fell off a mountain, courtesy of a rock avalanche, and my mind became just one state it had never been before nor ever was since: a computer fully attuned to the laws of classical mechanics… which, unbelievably, insured survival. 

Hate is strongly tied to survival and combat and thus is potentially all dominating..  

And now,traditional humanism is potentially more of a tragedy than ever before, because it failed to anticipate the present situation. We are potentially on the verge of a gigantic holocaust with potentially a few billion killed, more than in all wars of the preceding 10,000 years. These are, potentially, the worst of times. 

HITT is different from Christianism’s Original Sin. Original Sin, like the Prometheus myth it probably arose from, condemns disobedience (to “god”) and knowledge (of what “god” said one should not know)… “God” is literally a stand-in for “The Lord” (the local tyrant ruling over the serfs). Whereas HITT originates from the will to survival, that is the love of life and higher values… at all costs. HITT is close to the view on human nature developed by Rome before it went Christian.

So what’s HITT, the Hate Instinct Trigger Theory? A Pandora box of Dark Side ideas, behaviors and emotions. Once open, the world is forever changed, tomorrows are difficult. Consider humanity to be a body whose cells are individual humans. To be kept under control, this collectivity of cells, will have to be submitted to suicide (adoptosis) and killing (as killer cells in a human body… so that the body can survive…  

Why did this omission of HITT from traditonal humanism happen? Traditional humanism has, with determinate aggression, refused to look at reality: history abounds with individuals, or nations, who are full of hate. Why is there such a will to consider hate not part of the equation of human behavior? Because the quasi satanic plutocracy is in power and it must persuade its subjects that all is best in the best possible world with the very best grandees one could possibly imagine… Thus stories, sometimes remarkably inventive, are made to try to exculpate the haters… especially when they have to do with the owner class.

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However Machiavel and De Sade saw the truth. While the inherent tendency of the powerful, Machiavelli argued, is to accumulate ever more wealth and power to rule the rest, the inherent desire of the people is to avoid being at the elites’ mercy. The clash between the two classes generally pulled polities in opposite directions. Yet the Roman Republic had institutions, pointed out Machiavel, and as Polybius already said, like the tribunate of the plebs, that empowered the people and restrained the elites. Actually the People’s Assembly in Rome was all powerful… and Rome had an absolute wealth law Only by channeling rather than pretending this conflict does not exist, Machiavelli said, could civic freedom be optimized.

Sade outright claimed that the great nobles loved to torture and humiliate the commons… But it was all too natural: All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost – the most legitimate – passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one... Marquis De Sade was no dupe. Now, of course, civilization is not natural, but nature, new and improved.

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For example, some still come around and preach that “Germany” didn’t start World War One. (Actually, seven individuals at the top of Germany decided to launch the war on December 11, 1912, “within 18 months”!) The launch of WW1 was pure viciousness of the highest order: the seven German leaders knew they were launching a world war, and could not fight all at the same time, so they anticipated to defeat France first, then concentrate on Russia, and then negotiate with Britain… The negotiation with the USA was already done: world government… together… What triggered the German plutocratic class to risk a world war? The certainty that time was not working in their favor. 

When Hamas massacred as atrociously as possible more than a thousand Israeli civilians, that was a little plot residing on hate calculus in several ways: Hamas knew that hate was going to be triggered among Israelis (and rightly so). Also Hamas knew that the West is dom inated by the false and fake wokish humanistic theory that humanity was good: so surely Hamas could not have been atrocious, and surely Hamas’ Fifth Column in the West of traditional Jew haters would stop Israel… from winning the war.

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So what’s HITT, the Hate Instinct Trigger Theory. It’s a theory similar to apoptosis. A human being, in a way, is a collective of 36 trillion cells. When one of these cells starts to malfunction severely, it can trigger cancer, inflammation or become a useless parasite. A mechanism of autodestruction is then launched:

“Apoptosis” is a funny word that is derived from the Latin meaning “to fall off”, like a leaf falls off a tree. And a leaf falls off a tree when it’s dead. And apoptosis refers to a process of what’s called programmed cell death where the cell is actually in a funny kind of way committing suicide. And when this happens, there’s a whole scripted choreography of pathways and proteins within a cell that get activated to actually kill the cell and without making too much of a mess. And this happens normally during development, for instance, in the development of the hand, that normally to begin with, the hand looks very much like a duck paddle foot and the webs between the fingers. Those cells apoptose, giving you the fingers. There are human conditions where that ceases to where apoptosis just does not happen and people are born with web feet. Apoptosis normally happens in cells that have been around in the body long enough that they’re kind of worn out, and so they need to make way for nice, new young cells. When that doesn’t happen, that’s cancer. And so apoptosis can be normal, and in the absence of apoptosis, that can lead to cancer. Too much apoptosis in an otherwise normal human being will result in a number of so-called neurodegenerative diseases where cells die when they’re not supposed to die. And they get messages from some place, most of which we don’t understand, to tell them to die, so in a certain part of the lower part of the brain, that’s what causes Parkinson’s disease. This also characterizes Huntington’s disease, and Alzheimer’s disease, and Lou Gehrig’s disease, and a number of other neurodegenerative diseases.

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HATE IS PART APOPTOSIS:

When hate goes into action, a traditional objection is that hate will result in the destruction of the beholder. Exactly! Hate is meant to destroy. Destroy them, destroy us, does not matter in the greatest scheme of schemes, in the fundamental one. 

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Hate Is Full of Hope: 

When hate is directed against others, an affirmation of values is made: my values are worth saving, they are so worthy I am ready to die for them, and you are so unworthy, you must perish.

So, triggered appropriately, hate is an affirmation of values, it’s the opposite of nihilism.

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HITT Is Triggered By Perception Of Compromised Survival:

Human beings are  pretty innocent when they are, say, one year old. Later is often different. A very small fraction of humanity turns monstrous. However, in case of total war, the percentage of monsters can become a majority. This clearly shows that hate has to do with survival.

When the Nazis got to power, HITT was not triggered in Jews as a collective. Instead of hating the Nazis and thus try to kill them back, the Jews mostly trusted submission… Others trusted God or their legs. However the Nazis hated everybody, and they had decided to start with the Jews to warm up (however bizarre this may sound, it’s the truth according to Hilter himself… At least said so explicitly at more than one point). After the war, the Jews realized for the first time in 18 centuries that hate would save them.  

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Some. like that large imperial turkey, Marcus Aurelius, makes fine distinctions between hate, anger, which he views as “wounds” and manly courageous “submission” of the enemy. So the unworthy Marcomanni, presumably, were “submitted” by the courageous Marcus Aurelius, because they were angry and thus wounded (except Commodus gave them back what they had lost…)

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Hate is just the maximal passion against something or somebody, a total mobilization of the soul shaping itself in an arrow point of penetrating destruction.

So, destroy the excess population. If LOCs, Lines Of Communications, were destroyed worldwide, most of the world population will starve very soon. But starvation from overexploitation of the ecology is nothing new. In cases like that, hominid species, or races or cultures which were superior had a higher probability to survive. There may have been cases when a more brutish, cruel and stupid hominid species annihilated a more advanced species… but that’s unlikely. 

Confronted to a world that does not work anymore, hate and destroy stupid ideas. The threat of annihilation always contributes to great cultural advances.

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HITT can be triggered by assault and insult. An example that is often rolled out is that Germany went into Nazism because its hate had been triggered by the Versailles Treaty. So conventional thinkers understand HITT well… and use it as an excuse. Except of course, that the Versailles Treaty was not unjust. Yes, Germany and Austria (and Russia!) lost their subjugation of Eastern Europe… But surely that was not unfair. 

Now right, Germany was HITT triggered before Nazism… But one has to go back to when hyper nationalistic militarism spiced with antisemitism arose in the 1870s (to Nietzsche’s disgust). That was made worse when the despised French, outnumbered two to one, nearly destroyed the German army in September 1914…

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HITT can be triggered by weakness and opportunity:

This is what happened in the 1930s with the Axis powers. This is also what happened with the young, inexperienced and spineless Barry Obama, when he “reset” the relationship with Putin, compromised since the latter had invaded a few countries and poisoned a few leaders he didn’t like.  “Vladimir” as Obama called Putin, instead saw weakness and that was confirmed when Obabla called off a Franco-American punishment of Assad… which had been loudly and repeatedly threatened… Putin, now fully HITT triggered, by the prey reaction of the Obabla US, invaded Crimea, and then, when Obama did nothing about it, except for more boiler plate blabla and notorious MREs… Putin proceeded to invade the Donbas… Putin’s rampage became Oblabla’s top achievement… for the centuries to look down on…

HITT triggered by weakness and opportunity is also the tragic history of the Jews since Hadrian dispersed them. Israel was created to break that infernal subjugation and extermination. The squealing prey (Judaism oppressed by haters) became again Israel, a state with a defense force.  

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Since HITT is triggered by the will to survive, how come it can also be triggered by weakness and opportunity? Because HITT is triggered by prey behavior… What a fast evolving species such as humanity needs is the struggle for survival. Compromised survival brings extremities of brain behavior to insure survival… So compromised survival advances culture, epigenetics and environment controlled genetics… This is true both for the affected and the inflicting.

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Hate Instinct Trigger Theory implies that one has to be careful not opening the pandora box of hate: once triggered, hate is uncontrollable and can take over anybody. The existence of HITT is probably why Christianism and Islamism insist so much on forgiveness, and why vengeance can lead to eternally vicious circles of retaliatory violence (as in several Mediterranean countries…) A good way out of HITT is to understand exactly what triggered it, and fix that. This is how Northern Ireland got out of its troubles and why Brexit was so threatening (as the EU had canceled the hard border between the two Irelands, and alleviated tensions…)

Another difficulty with HITT is that, like anger of which it is a generalized and stronger version, hate is a neurohormonal state, so what triggered HITT can become independent of what it does next. Hate is no logic only dependent of its own axioms (another mistake traditional humanism makes). So one can’t be just reasoned out of hate once HITT is launched.

So medieval peasant exasperated by the feudal order, between two massive bloody revolutions against the nobles (there were some in the 10C, 14C, 17-18C) could always, full of hate as they were, punish the Jews… Nothing personal… Who the peasants really hated were the Lords, but they took it out on the Jews (they were related: nobles could get loans from Jews and at the same time regulated and controlled where the Jews lived and what they did! Overall the Jews were dispersed around, by the Lords, and well liked by peasants… so pogroms happened because and when angry dispossessed people were roaming around… At least so was it found in a refined study of the Jewish population of 152 villages in northern France, 1006-1300 CE)

Ultimately, indeed hate is nothing personal, it’s all about ecology and brain economy… in other words, physics…

“We’ve all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That’s who we really are.” – Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, J.K. Rowling

It would be more accurate to say: what we have been. It’s a mistake to believe that what we have been is what we will be, especially if circumstances change… Such as the flow of years.
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

MLK had to express the “goodness and light always triumph and only them can triumph“… As a public figure in the situation he was, that made the most sense. However, in reality, hate can be used to exterminate the object of hate, thus self-extinguishing. For example, modern US denizens do not hate Indians, as the bad Indians are all dead, and their descendants are hybrids in more ways than one. It was very different when a column of wagons had to cross that desertic basin between two ranges…

Hate extinguishing what it hates is the most frequent mechanism in history: Catholicism exterminated all its opposing cults… Except for Judaism… upon which it was based. The more than 14 species of hominids Homo Erectus or Antecessor had to share Africa with didn’t go away gently, in an enlightening process. It was hate all the way into extinction.

HITT is in ambush. For the whole wide world. As the number of casualties in Ukraine is probably around a million in May 2024, a lot of hate is building up, fully triggered.

Hate is, alarmingly enough, a positive force in human evolution: it made humanity possible, and the more the way it is, by accelerating evolution through conscious culling. It’s biological, but also cultural: Don’t like slavery? Exterminate the Confederates… Yes, Sherman’s March to the Sea was an atrocity. So what? That’s why it worked. So it was that its enemies destroyed the Assyrian empire: they couldn’t defeat the Assyrian army, so they destroyed the Assyrian population to starve the Assyrian army. That was 26 centuries ago.

Hate can, and must be directed, redirected by the good towards destroying the bad (see, hope is coming!) This is how the Allies could destroy German cities full of innocent people and children, with self-righteous satisfaction (and they did the same destroying French cities for no good reason; for example ports such Toulon or Saint Malo or Caen, when there was no Kriegsmarine left whatsoever)

The Hamas attack on Israel was a pogrom… and a tease: see what we, Hamas, can get away with? The know-all-too-little wokish students in the West are with us, Hamas, and mighty Putin too.

Confronted to pogroms, the Jews have been fleeing for a millennium. When Spain expulsed the Jews, they went to North Africa and the Ottoman Empire (which was in the process of acquiring control of North Africa). In the last few decades, the Jews have had to flee North Africa, thanks to a rise of terrorism and tyranny disguised as Muslim Fundamentalism… HITT can awaken the morally most innocuous: finally, sometimes after the negotiations with Eichman to save one million Jews in exchange for thousands of trucks, failed, indeed, the smartest Jews understood, thanks to the HITT, that Israel’s rebirth, in full, as a state with an army, defending, punishing, and preventing was the solution… they were motivated by the hate, anger, call it what you want, the very strong emotions that the solution to genocide against the Jews was maximal violence.

That’s what HITT does, goodness out of violence, and that’s why we are who we are… Higher, always higher ethics without HITT, is an impossibility. That may look paradoxical to those who can’t follow the details, but is not anymore so that getting to a positive result after a computation, while using minus signs on the way...

Patrice Ayme

INNOCENCE FROM IGNORANCE: An Old Trick Used By Religions To Make Themselves Popular From The Hate They Enable

Following Socrates it’s assumed that ignorant people are (basically) innocent, even while committing evil: ignorance made them do it (exonorating evildoers from Mens Rea). Yes, sure… but what when people make themselves deliberately ignorant with the aim of committing evil? Remember that in the Nazi state, ignorance was rampant. Ignorance was a system. Remember the Mafia, and omerta (the code of obedience to the leader and silence about the organization and its business)…

The thesis that ignorance makes good is self-serving: to a great extent Socrates, Plato and Aristotle were culprit of not liking very much (Socrates), or detesting (Plato), or even lethally hating (Aristotle) Athenian democracy. At Nuremberg, the Nazis used the Socrates defense: we had no idea that these things were happening. When Adolf Eichmann was tried in Jerusalem, instead of using Socrates, pleading ignorance, something he couldn’t do as he visited Auschwitz, and literally tried to barter the lives of one million Jews with the Allies, Eichmann used Kant, who had taught him superior morality came from obeying orders…

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I didn’t know the house was going to burn down, arsonists often say… “We knew nothing” (Nazi leaders full throttle chorus at Nuremberg).

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Pleading innocence from ignorance is one of the oldest trick (I just shot my poisoned arrow into that bush for target practice, said Neanderthal, and my enemy was hiding there, now he is dead, I didn’t know, sorry). What if the gory religions which govern the minds of billions were designed to organize ignorance and justify evil?

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Happy go goody “new age” pseudo-thinkers, gurus and their ilk, love to insist that most people fail to realize that memorizing religious beliefs does not replace authentic investigations. Pseudo-thinkers, gurus and their ilk, love to think highly of common people, so that common people will keep the donations coming. The worst possibility is the opposite: that most people do not fail to realize that memorizing deleterious beliefs does not replace authentic investigations. And they have very good reasons, or so they feel, for that: I actually know personally white slightly colored supporters of Hamas who see in supporting Hamas a way to advance their future career (hate for Israel being the way to a nice income and comfortable power)… We are “friends”… even family… I observe them calmly, silently, like hawks do with mice… 

The ecstasy of hate, a deep and most rewarding human instinct, as one discovers once neurohormonally engaged in it, comes first…

And then comes the fake belief in some pathological horror that comes in handy to justify said hate… 

Do really fundamentalist Muslims believe, in this day and age, that all and any Jew must be killed so that the Final Judgment can occur… as some famous Hadiths say, and as repeated in Hamas Charter, article 7? No. The scriptures order to kill all the Jews come in handy to justify the primitivism.and delight of threatening enemies with death.

Fateful Hadiths: “There Is A Jew… So Kill Him!” 

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Why so much attraction to pain and mayhem? If one does so, one forgets one is only a human being, soon to die as a mosquito. Instead, one feels like God. … A God who loves to inflict pain. Being a predator beats being a prey, so the suicidal attacker march gaily to their fate… Another very deep human instinct closely related to hate, which made life in the savannah possible. Once lions and their ilk understood that humans were that crazy, they tried to avoid them…

So Hamas is nut, but the haters inside know that, and love it. Same in Russia. People deep down know Putin is nuts, but they love it, and feel his madness is an adventure worth sharing. That helps them forget how messed up they are… Having a giant empire and calling it… Russia!

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In general, anger is the best way to forget suffering, as anger leads to fight and lethal fight is made possible, evolutionary speaking, by ignoring pain.

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So we see that there is a whole entangled architecture to pain, hate, suffering, beliefs in lethal metaphysics, lack of rationality, and feeling like a god. Average people are happy to use religion as a conduit and cover-up to conduct hate operations.

This is why all too many people love to have religions to hate Ukraine and Israel…. And why no doubt Chrsitians and Muslims put churches and mosques on top of the Jewish temple in the capital of Israel.

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Simplicius: Would you then say that some people carefully nurture their ignorance from the desire of engaging in hateful activities?

PA: Absolutely! And this is why those who foster the truth are themselves such a hateful inconvenience…

Simplicius: But you also said new thinking was hated because it caused even sympathetic and wilful students to spend a lot of energy demolishing their old thought system and building new one? 

PA: Absolutely! 

Simplicius: So you have two different causes for hating thinkers like you?

PA: There are even more! But those are the two reasons which are major, the deepest and hard to escape: the hate of wasting energy, and the love of hate.

Simplicius: I find you rather disagreeable…

PA: Absolutely!

Patrice Ayme

Soul mates… Beware of Brown Men! Brown Man tries to seduce White Man to go down, come down to Earth, while White Man wants to fly up, like a bird, so,light his spirit is… although he has no wings!

Fateful Hadiths: “There Is A Jew… So Kill Him!”

One of the virtues of Islam is deliberate lying to non-Muslims (it’s prescribed!) So the sacred texts of Islam ordering to kill Jews, all Jews, or to commit genocide against various groups have been hiding in plain sight: it’s increasingly against the law, including French law, to just see such texts. This sort of Islamophilia works by declaring that telling the truth about the most basic texts of Islam exhibits “Islamophobia” (the fear of Islam)… which is viewed as racism… and racism is in turn equated to hate speech… punishable by law. (Will fearing the Catholic Inquisition be a hate crime too, very soon?)

We are all been Islamized one deranged, anti-civilizational judge’s order at a time! (French “judges” judged that quoting while praising Hadith ordering the genocide of Jews was not hate speech… Here I quote, but do not praise…)

Hate, terror, fear, torture, extermination are the great classics of human history. By applying terminal horror to creatures associated with Israel, even the not yet born, just because they were associated with Israel, Hamas sung the song of termination, familiar throughout human evolution.  Hamas wanted to imprint on the world that the way to deal with Jews was to instill in them the expectation of genocide.

Islam is at fault. Islam sacred texts are obsessed with Jews, as Islam is a reinterpretation of Jewish faith. The Hadiths about the necessity to kill all the Jews from top Caliphs, and Abi Huraira are extremely famous and known to all Muslim Fundamentalists. Similar Hadiths (kill all Jews) were uttered by Second Caliph Umar (no less!) and many others, sometimes in Hadiths up to several pages long, giving all the details! (Links are to standard Islam sites.)

There are thousands of Hadiths and Quran verses trashing the Jews; Jews spoil food, they are apes, pigs, etc…. But the order to kill the Jews so that the Final Judgment can proceed has got to be the ultimate… The order to kill all Jews was Article 7 of the 1988 Hamas Charter.

Here is an extract from PBS, the US national government public TV and radio (PBS is considered woke and left… in truth a creature of US corporations… which are pretending to be woke and left…), on the genocidal antijudaism in Arabia:

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/saudi/etc/textbooks.html

The incriminated Saudi books were published in 2000. PBS FRONTLINE cannot verify how many Saudi schools have used these textbooks, or how these passages were taught or interpreted by teachers in Saudi Arabia. However, these textbooks are part of the official curriculum for Saudi students and are a fundamental part of their education. Approximately 35% of school studies is devoted to compulsory Saudi religious education. (For more on Saudi religious education, see FRONTLINE’s interviews with Ali al-Ahmed, Mai Yamani, and Hassan Youssef Yassin.)

The Victory of Muslims over the Jews. This first extract, “The Victory of Muslims Over Jews,” is the last two pages from the prophet Mohammed’s sayings, HADITHS. Hadith narrated by Abi Huraira:

“The last hour won’t come before the Muslims would fight the Jews and the Muslims will kill them so Jews would hide behind rocks and trees. Then the rocks and tree would call: oh Muslim, oh servant of God! There is a Jew behind me, come and kill him. Only “Gharkad” tree, it is of Jews’ trees.”

Explanation of words. “Last Hour: the hereafter will not come. “Gharkad”: a big tree with thorns and the Jews grew it a lot in Palestine those days. Here are the Teachings of the Hadiths:

1/ It’s fate decided by Allah that the Muslims and Jews will fight till the end of the world.

2/ The Hadith predicts for the Muslims God’s victory over the Jews.

3/ The victory for the Muslims because they are right, and who ever is right is always victorious, even though most people are against him.

4/ God grants victory to the Muslims if they have a true will, if they unite, hold on to God’s sharia, if they go by God’s ruling, if they are patient.

5/ The material strength won’t be enough to warrant victory, it is necessary to invoke God and to seek his support.

6/ Whoever is with God, God is with him; no matter what hardships and ordeals one would undergo, what counts is the final result.

7/ Jews and Christians are the enemies of believers they will never approve of the Muslims, beware of them.

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Muslims generally deny that Islam hates Jews, because they know hate looks bad and they want to look good… But those same Muslims typically refuse to consider the plethora of offensive sacred texts against Jews, in Quran and Hadith… and this shows they are not honest, or then so ignorant that there is something called “The Glorious Quran”, a text, a propaganda work, where all the toxic, lethal threats and horrific commands of the real Quran have been excised… And that apparently this “Glorious Quran” is the only book they have been exposed to… If one applied the same process to Nazi texts, to refuse to quote all offending Nazi texts, Nazism would come clean as a whistle.

In the case of Islam, so-called “Glorious Quran” edition do exactly that, removing and expunging all calls to apply torture in the name of Allah to… most of humanity (turns out)… 

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In a spirit of respect to Muslims who are in denial that Islam preaches torture to death against many non-Muslims, here is an extract from WSJ of a British “Observant” Muslim Qanta A. Ahmed, a British-American physician who came to prominence as a doctor specializing in sleep disorders. She has also worked as an author and journalist and human right activist.

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Muslim Qanta A. Ahmed, a British-American physician wrote: “The Scenes of Genocide I Saw in Israeli Morgues

This wasn’t an emotional frenzy of killing like the pogroms of the 1880s. It was methodically planned…

This is Israel. I arrived on Oct. 19 to spend 10 days as a human-rights observer with the permission of the nation’s Foreign Affairs Ministry and help from Israel Defense Forces officer Kobi Valer. As an observant Muslim, I felt a duty to come and bear witness. What I saw will remain with me forever.

Hamas waged its attacks in the nation’s south, but hundreds of its victims have since been moved north. I encountered many of them at the morgues at the Shura military base near Ramle, some 15 miles southeast of Tel Aviv. I toured the Sammy Ofer Fortified Underground Emergency Hospital in Haifa, visiting the neonatal units whose tiny patients had recently been relocated in anticipation of further conflict. I examined bodies and ashes, incinerated teeth and bones. I saw toddlers, teens and adults, young and old, many of them bound, tortured and burned alive.

One word continually came to mind: genocide. No matter how it emerges, the monster is easy to recognize. As a doctor, I had a rare and panoramic view of the aftermath: the targeted people’s long, agonizing journey to death.

This isn’t the first time I have seen Islamist jihadism or even Islamist genocide. I’ve been to northwestern Pakistan and met child Taliban operatives groomed for suicide missions. I still attend to 9/11 first-responders in New York. I’ve been to post-ISIS Iraq to meet with Kurdish and Yazidi survivors of genocide. I’ve spoken with former ISIS child soldiers and the Peshmerga veterans of that brutal and bloody three-year war.

The Oct. 7 genocide was different, more barbaric than anything before it. The attacks were cloaked in the language and metaphors of Islam, yet corrupted with cosmic enmity for the Jewish people, Judaism, global Jewry and the Jewish state. They revealed again that Islamism is a virulent impostor of Islam with intentions anathema to the faith. And there was no doubt of Islamism’s guilt: I saw real-time footage generated by the Hamas commandos’ own GoPro cameras. I heard phone calls exclaiming the Shahadah—the Islamic declaration of faith—as they murdered, executed, burned, pillaged and then broadcast their crimes.

There is a commonality I have found in the face of such destruction. People struggle to find the words to describe what happened. Israelis I met were still searching for how to recount their experiences. Some talked about a second Shoah, a second Holocaust. One Israeli detective disagreed: “We can’t call this a holocaust—not because of the numbers—but because the Nazis were systematic and institutionalized the killing, and we can’t call it carnage, because ‘carnage’ is too nice a word.” He looked at me with a painful gaze. I found my own words strangled in silence, except one: genocide.

Article 6 of the 1998 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court defines genocide as a crime against humanity in terms identical to the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. Its essential element is intent “to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.”

The Oct. 7 attack was premeditated, organized and targeted, seeking to destroy as many Israelis as possible. Hamas tortured and immolated its victims, including children, pregnant women and the unborn. Its men intentionally captured hostages, around 240 in total, reportedly from more than 40 countries.

They had intent. Eyewitnesses told me the terrorists came with tablets loaded with maps of the kibbutzim, blueprints and floor plans of homes, names of families and specific knowledge of service records and where Israeli veterans were living. Others told me that some of the terrorists spoke Hebrew and lured the unwitting out of their safe rooms into certain death.

This wasn’t like the pogroms of the 1880s, a frenzy of killing with rabid emotion. This was a methodically planned genocide. No such circumstances apply to Israel’s operation in Gaza, and so the description must not be the same. The sovereign state of Israel is destroying Hamas because Hamas is threatening Israel, which is working to mitigate civilian losses. The country has a duty to prevent further genocide against its people. Saying so doesn’t detract from the suffering of Palestinians who are captives of Hamas.

Two weeks after the attack, Queen Rania of Jordan suggested that the butchering of children had yet to be “independently verified” as I examined images of their remains in Ramle. The deceit felt as barbaric as the atrocities. There is no context, no nuance, that justifies genocide. Its intention is the same throughout the ages: the destruction of a people.

Israel, the West and the Muslim world must respond with necessary moral clarity: Define the Oct. 7 attacks as genocide. Legally designating the horrors as such ought to become a priority, independent of the war against Hamas, because the attacks need to be documented and prosecuted as crimes against humanity. Doing so is a matter of Jewish survival. The world has been silent in the face of Jewish genocide before. When we now say never again, we must mean it.

Dr. Ahmed is a physician who specializes in sleep disorders and a senior fellow at the Independent Women’s Forum.“

When as towering a personage as Umar, the Second Caliph of Islam, top companion and general of Muhammad, promotes the killing of Jews one cannot say such will to kill is caused by rogue Islamists. Umar overviewed the invasion of Jerusalem and then Egypt. The Catholic Patriarch in Jerusalem invited Umar to come and pray in the Catholic church on the top of the Temple of the Jews. Umar declined the invitation, because, he said, if it did so, the Muslims (his followers!) would turn the Church into a mosque. So he prayed outside, where now the famous and beautiful gold dome mosque stands. Roman Catholics and Islamists both disliked the Jews… And for the same fundamental reason: they had stolen their religions from the Jews, and thus had to justify that by saying Jews and their religion were bad.

Much has been made of the “tolerance” of Muslims for Jews (and Christians). But for centuries Arab and Iranian military aristocracies ruled over giant Judeo-Christian populations, which they needed to serve them. But they were cruelly oppressed in all sorts of ways… some lethal… to prevent rebellion… As happened in Spain (but the Franks started the liberation of Spain… Including Catalonia, Aragon, etc,,,)

Well, to recapitulate, Ahmed, perhaps having been fed a diet of “Glorious Quran”, you may not realize it, but the Hamas torturers applied literally what is in Fundamental Muslim texts… Dr. Ahmed, with all due respect, and maybe you have to say it as an anti-Islam Fifth Columnist, you are deluded and in denial: there is no difference between “Islamism” and Islam, not anymore than there would be between Christianism and Christ.

There are easily more than 100 sects of Islam. Some are compatible with civilization, but strict interpretations of sacred texts where they are the most extreme is NOT compatible with civilization. However the extremes won.

Patrice Ayme

Good Fundamental Muslims are immersed in a bath of Jewish hate; once again, this is standard fare; authors of hate for Jews are Muhammad (so-called Messenger of the fascist in heavens), Bakr (Muhammad’s father in law and first Caliph), Umar (companion of Muhammad, second Caliph, and enemy of Aisha about sexism; Aisha was Muhammad’s child bride, they married when she was six (6), and his second wife, daughter of Bakr) etc. :

HATRED Is The GREATEST UNIFIER.

Hatred will unify a country, any country, because all the people will hate each other, and they will have not just this in common… What emotion has greater consequences than hatred? Not even love compares! Indeed, love rarely kills, but hatred readily does. In a most lethal sense, hatred is the ultimate emotion. If one cares about life, hatred is the most important emotion. Thus human psychobiology is finely tuned to hatred.

At least such seems to be the idea of the plutocratic establishment (which manipulates the media). As we can readily see it, by looking at whole human history, it’s not really a new idea: hatred is probably the oldest social manipulation technique. Fabricating it carefully is most common.

In 2020 some US media controlled by very wealthy people claimed all Trump voters, 75 millions of them, were KKK, Nazis… Such ridiculous and damaging hateful hysteria is a form of pernicious violence, that must stop… Legally, it has a name: fighting words. Unification by hatred seems to be the deepest emotion, and why shouldn’t it be? Nothing has greater consequences…

The Deep Global Plutocracy and its media are keen to steer hatred to their advantage… Because as hatred is the ultimate emotion, if one controls and directs it, one can have the greatest effect. Pretending for more than 4 years that Trump was elected by Putin kindled hatred (whereas, in truth, it is Obama who let Putin start to invade Ukraine, and Trump who provided the anti-tank weapons to stop Putin… in Ukraine!)

Unification through hatred works: history is full of such examples. A particular case, a baby case, which has received academic accolades, is scapegoatism. A French philosopher, Girard, made a whole glorious career at Stanford and the French Academy simply for describing “scapegoatism” as a most significant driver of human behavior… Instead I suggest to go much further: hatred is the ultimate driver of human behavior… The greatest unifier.

When nuclear tyrant, Vlad the Mad, decided to destroy a democracy, he hoped to unify Russia under his vile and sordid subjugation. Putin used hatred to do so, calling Ukrainian leaders and a significant part of the population “Neo-Nazis” and “drug addicts“. Putin hoped hatred would be a great unifier. But it works the other way too: when the hateful nuclear tyrant decided to subjugate Ukraine, he unified Ukraine, and the world, through the hatred his infamy and menace caused.

Hating monsters such as Putin is a good emotion. It is positive and constructive. It gives us the strength we need to become heroes. Hitler was destroyed thanks to hatred. Hitler’s monstrosity was long greatly hidden. Not so with Vlad the Mad. We should hate even more a criminal against humanity who threatened repeatedly to turn all of humanity to “radioactive ashes“.

Putin Delendus Est!

Patrice Ayme

Body of dead servant of the evil Vlad the Mad, next to three destroyed Putin armored vehicles in Ukraine, February 15, 2022…

P/S: reference Hatred Great Unifier, v 1.0

Elon Musk: “Reasons to hate are remembered better than reasons to love.”

PA: Because love will not kill you, but hatred will. https://patriceayme.wordpress.com/2022/02/27/hatred-is-the-greatest-unifier/…

LIMIT WEALTH ABSOLUTELY II: Because Great Wealth Steers Elite Leadership. Referendums To Fix It All.

Extreme WEALTH SELF LEVERAGES THROUGH PURCHASED INFLUENCE. HOW TO FIX IT: Referendum Initiative Citizen, RIC.

The Roman Republic did it! And died from stopping to do it! Athens didn’t need to do it (its wealthiest citizens were not as wealthy as those of Rome; instead wealthy Macedonians killed Athenian democracy). The Republic of Florence didn’t do it, and died from not doing it!

This essay is a deepening, and development, focusing more on the spiritual aspect of oligarchy, and plutocracy, found in my essay “LIMIT WEALTH ABSOLUTELY”

LIMIT WEALTH ABSOLUTELY

Want progress? Want democracy? Let We The PEOPLE VOTE in a referendum TO LIMIT WEALTH ABSOLUTELY! Once the issues are clearly explain and debated, it would pass.Who would object to limit wealth under, say, 100 million dollars?… Except if the work is of public utility (so the likes of Space X, Blue Origin could keep on going on private capital). Another referendum would pass universal healthcare in the USA (no need for debate there, the polls are overwhelmingly in favor)…

The ancient argument against great wealth, familiar to all organized savages, for most of the Neolithic, is that wealth exponentiates: the more of it there is, the easier it is to get more. Even the savage Plains Indians taxed extreme wealth nearly 100%, redistributing thoroughly the thousands of horses a great chief could own.

Another, newer, argument, developed here, is that in modern, massive civilization, wealth controls opinion, hence minds. Wealth can easily purchase the leaders of a Representative Oligarchy system, also known, by a common abuse of language, as “Representative Democracy”.

Corruption is intrinsic to this so-called “Representative Democracy” when wealth is not limited absolutely. Even if one put serious term limits and drastic limits on how much the private sector can influence the public sector. Indeed private actors of immense wealth have many powerful ways to influence (as I will show):

10,000 decide of everything, worldwide: that’s .00001% of the world population… Billionaires are a fifth of that in numbers… So roughly there is more than one very wealthy person for each top leader or influencer, worldwide. This is the crux of the disease attacking us and the biosphere: the leadership feels, think and acts to please wealth. Moreover, as the wealthiest are intrinsically evil (consult Christ!), bad decisions are deliberately taken to further the rule of this oligarchy, because wars, conflicts and disasters distract We The People…

Rome is our great lab study and warning sign:

The Roman Republic is our great predecessor. The Roman Republic made the principle of respecting secular law foremost, as Qin did in China roughly at the same time. This highest principle was a huge success.

Making secular law foremost is such a powerful principle that it makes powerful states: Qin (prolonged by their immediate successors and implementers, the Han) and the Roman Republic built giant empires which can be viewed as lasting to this day (France, thus Western Europe, and the Anglo-Saxon colonies are direct successor regimes of Rome: they use Roman law… refurbished by Constantinople and the Franks, foedi of Rome, and sole inheritors of Roman Imperium.

The Roman Republic collapse was long drawn out: republican elements were taken out, one after the other, for 550 years (let’s say for clarity from 150 BCE until 400 CE, when the Franks were given Roman military imperium over the Germanias and Gallia… by a strange government of Catholic bishops, who, practically then, governed the Roman empire).

Sometimes, under the fascist empire (launched by Augustus), things went back, the other way, towards more Republicanism. In particular under Trajan, with mass scholarships paid by taxes on the rich, or when emperor Caracalla gave universal citizenship. But overall, the Republican institutions decayed under the fascist empire…

The Roman Republic was an enormous success, as a territorial empire: most of the conquests were made under the Republic. If so successful, why did the Republic collapse (dragging the Roman state with it)?

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Sylla, Cicero, Caesar and Augustus accompanied a (plutocratic) revolution they didn’t start and couldn’t control:

The Roman Republic lasted 5 centuries, in full. Then it ran into trouble, as civil wars happened all over. Caesar’s grand nephew, Octavian, aka “Caesar” (he took the name of his uncle and adoptive father, as per tradition), captured the Republic.

When Octavianus/Caesar/Augustus took control, peace got established, by force, and that enforced peace made this Augustus popular enough to stay in power.

“Caesar” made himself “Princeps” (first, principal)… First man in the Senate, somehow, controlling everything, but without the title of king. When he died, nobody knew what to do, and the generalissimo, Tiberius, stayed in seclusion, until the Senate, duly selected by Octavian/Augustus, a set of plutocrats, begged Tiberius to come out, and take some of Augustus’ responsibilities.

Indeed, by Augustus’ death, Rome’s billionaires occupied the entire political landscape… but for the army, which had been the force, and most of the will, behind Octavian/Caesar’s revolution (regressive revolution, revolution nevertheless!)

Augustus, an extremely gifted teenager who led a revolution, got unhinged early on. Plutocracy would drive anybody crazy, that’s its main purpose, in the grand scheme of evolution!

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Roman Republic Lasted Five Centuries In Full, Because of Absolute Limit on Wealth, Vanished When they Did:

In the next four centuries after Augustus found himself “Princeps”, power would balance between billionaires, the plutocrats and the army, until the latter increasingly defanged the Senate (where billionaires ruled), and the plutocrats embraced Christianism, thanks to Constantine’s crazed family, etc.

How did the Roman Republic collapse then? From the switch to a professional army which reverted to old methods of pillage and the like (as Alexander’s men used to). That switch itself was caused by the impoverishment of Rome’s citizen-soldiers, obvious by 150 BCE (and which the Gracchi deplored in eloquent terms, claiming Roman citizen-soldiers had it “worse than wild beasts”, although they were called the “masters of the world”).

That destitution of citizen-soldiers, in turn was caused directly by the rise of the hyper wealthy. The latifundia (giant agri businesses manned by slaves, owned by hyper wealthy Senatorial class) undercut the work product of Roman traditional peasants…. That happened because globalization made it possible immense fortunes which, coming back to Italy bought out indebted citizen-peasants whose work products were undercut by slave work (on the giant latifundia).  

The Gracchi brothers tried to impose the wealth limit laws (existing, but not enforced). They were too late. A generation or two too late (but then of course the Roman army was busy destroying Carthage allies, including Macedonia). They were in turn undercut by the rise of global plutocracy eschewing local taxes and laws. As the hyper wealthy by then could afford private armies of goons, the Gracchi and more than 5,000 of their supporters were assassinated.

So the citizen-soldiers army disappeared… All the more as the invasion of the Teutoni, Cimbri and their allies, saw the near annihilation of the entire Roman army, before the peasantish Marius, helped by the Senatorial Sylla reestablished the situation spectacularly by annihilating the invading German armies.

In any case, out of that mess came professional Roman armies, and they had to be paid… by their commanders in chief, the imperators. When imperators, such as Pompey the Great and Caesar, collided, civil war resulted.

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We Are Engaged In A Similar Decay, With The Similar Causes to Those Which Demolished the Roman Democratic Republic: 

The whole process of decay of the Roman Republic arose from the economic, and then social destitution of Roman citizen peasant soldiers… the same citizen peasant soldiers who had made Greek city-states so powerful and progressive (with the exception of Sparta, where citizens were just soldiers enslaving the Helots who were the peasants (and occasional soldiers, when Sparta needed massive armies).

Now, of course, we are decaying just the same, and the leading republics, France and the USA switched to professional armies. As happened in Rome, professional armies can make coups and even, revolutions (Octavian had to do what his centurions wanted him to do; one of them went to the Senate, and brandished his sword, adding that, if the Senate didn’t agree to the propositions the army made, that sword would force them to…)

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Same process of wealth concentration in the oligarchy, while the public perishes, as under the decaying Roman Republic: public property collapses, while private holdings (the 1%!) blooms.

Representative Oligarchy, Our Present System, Attracts deliberately idiotic greedsters:

I watched ex-Président of the French Conseil Constitutionel Jean-Louis Debré. That institution, the Conseil Constitutionel, makes sure French laws are in agreement with the Declaration of the Rights of Man of 1789 (not the one of 1793; the UN follows 1789, not 1793; 1793 recognizes the right and duty of peoples to enter insurrection when Rights of Man are gravely oppressed: it was too progressive for the founders of the UN…) The US doesn’t have really a Constitutional Court, although the Supreme Court, SCOTUS, sometimes plays that role, somebody has to…   

Jean-Louis Debré is the son Michel Debré, long a Prime Minister, and brother of Bernard Debré, MD and MP. Also the great grand-son of a Great Rabbin of France. Same family as the famous Fields Medal mathematician , Laurent Schwartz. In other words, a family as connected as one gets, to the point of having a Wikipedia entry with around 50 names! In any case, the ci-devant Debré was on all French TV networks, day after day, to explain, with the bluntest bad faith, that Direct Democracy was the rule of the mob (he used the Greek word invented by the Greek hostage Polybius when he wanted to ingratiate himself with Roman plutocracy, circa 140 BCE… Small world, no? Debré hit just at the same period when civilization took a bad turn, and, as an oligarch, 22 centuries later, stand with the bad guys… Never mind that led straight to Nazism and he is a descendant of Jews…).

So there are those who belong to the oligarchy, and those who accede to it. Several contributors to my site have suggested the obvious: that Obama’s parents were CIA connected (that would explain why he could go through school doing dope and learning very little: the future was his, as a perfect pupett), Now finally, some on the vague left have the courage to say it as it is: the Guardian ran an excellent article saying what I long said: last thing we need is more Obamaism

…Obamaism leads us to believe that we do not need to choose, and that we can actually have it all – as long as we always make sure to line up behind policies that appease the super-wealthy.

It is, in other words, the ideology undergirding the argument recently put forward by former vice-president, Joe Biden, who insisted: “I don’t think 500 billionaires are the reason why we’re in trouble … the folks at the top aren’t bad guys.”

Biden gets it all wrong, and that’s deliberate: 500 billionaires are precisely why we are in trouble. Actually, it’s not 500, but more than 2.200. Some of these billionaires are just creations of the powers that be, for example Abrahamovitch, a Russian sidekick of Putin, now equipped with Israeli citizenship, tight with Beatles legend Sir Paul Mccartney. I mention this, to show even artistic leadership is tight with the plutocracy, not really distinguishable from it. So here now is the beef of this essay:

BILLIONAIRES CAN BUY OUR LEADERS, SPIRITUAL  OR POLITICAL; Here Is The Math:

In the Representative Oligarchy we have now, the wealthiest can steer the few thousands politicians, CEOs, media pundits, influence peddlers, pseudo-intellectuals, university professors, etc. who drive the world.

Their total worth in 2018 is actually 10 trillion. Let’s divide by the number of individuals, like Debré, Biden, who they need to impose plutocracy aka “Representative Democracy” as the world’s best institution: 10,000 billions/10,000 = 10^13/10^4 = 10^8 = one billion.

OK, let’s be more realistic, suppose the 2,200 billionaires spent just 1% of their worth influencing the oligarchic influencers. That gives us a very sustainable, but gigantic 10 million dollars each! In other words, the world’s 2,200 billionaires can flood those 10,000 drivers of the world’s public opinion, with ten million dollars each, while spending a tiny portion of their wealth… And a spending that doesn’t function as a tax, which would go to the state, whereas here it goes to the hearts and minds of the oligarchy itself. The 1% spent influencing the influencers functions as a force multiplier! They recover much more, as when Steve Jobs persuaded Irish politicians to tax Apple just 1% on worldwide revenue, and then probably even more to persuade EU politicians to do nothing effective about this violation of EU law (minimum tax required: 12.5%).

The Guardian nails it, repeating what I said, and saw, from inside, a decade ago already : “It is easy to understand the political utility of this third-way legend: it lets Democrats continue raising gobs of cash from satisfied corporate donors and moguls, and it at least provides voters with more palatable rhetoric than what the Republican party offers. And yet the record of third-way policies over the past few years have made painfully clear that Obamaism’s refusal to choose a side can be a nihilistic choice unto itself.”

The Guardian is too generous. What we are facing here is institutionalized corruption. Past British PM (Major, Blair) made a fortune with jobs provided to them by the billionaire class and their agents. Let alone Al Gore, who made a cool billion and got a Nobel (for talking a storm about the environment while doing nothing about it when he could…)

In France the situation is hilarious: the top intelligentsia, politicos and plutocrats talk, dine and bed each other, sometimes in fancy palaces of distant monarchies. They have ruined the country, but never mind: they thrive, they rule the spiritual waves rolling over the countries. We have seen this before, say in the Ancient Regime (entangled with the Founding Fathers of the USA, nota bene…), or even earlier when Louis XIV was busy devastating France with his ethnocide against the Protestants he was so proud of (and the ensuing world wars…) Some Gilets Jaunes, Yellow Jackets, have concluded that it would best to burn the whole thing down, that entire conspiracy. I concur (are they going to try to get me convicted to inciting to burn down a conspiracy? Right now in France, as in Putinistan, inciting to rebellion sends one to jail. Well, corrupt judges will have to admit that there is one conspiracy, first. According to the 1793 Declaration Des Droits de l’Homme, it is our DUTY to rebel, then…)

So let’s recapitulate. Spending 1% of their wealth each year actually acts as a force multiplier: billionaires make more by spending 1% of their wealth a year, than by not spending it. As observed. A billionaire goes see a president in his presidential palace (happened countless times in the White House and the Palais de l’Elysée), The billionaire makes the president a very remunerative job waits for him when coming out (OK, doesn’t work with billionaire Trump, so Trump is very bad)… if the president consents NOT to tax the company of the billionaire, or his “foundation”, or if the president consents to let his company violate antitrust laws, or environmental laws, or even national security laws (as when French or US drugs have to be all purchased in China; or when “markets” are obtained from technology transfers to… fascist dictatorships, as happened plenty from the USA to Nazi Germany and the USSR).

Or then one takes all top state bankers and economists in Europe, two hundred individuals at most, and one persuades them that, to make real money they have to keep the Euro the way it is, as a  machine to further the wealth of billionaires. And so on…

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How To Stop This? TAX WEALTH ABSOLUTELY! REFERENDUM INITIATIVE CITIZEN!

Indeed suppose wealth was limited at, say 100 millions: then the total wealth of the wealthiest 2,200 would be only 200 billions, and the amount to spend on influencers and “leaders”, only 200,000 a year… Tempting, however, not irresistible.

The RIC: Referendum Initiative Citizenry is another way around, as the wealthiest can’t buy every single one of us.

So let’s re-establish real, direct, Democracy, after a savage 23 centuries interruption, and do both!

In 1911, a referendum in California decided that women should vote: RICs are progressive, because they are anti-oligarchic and oligarchy is always regressive. That was one the first polity to give women such rights, after Pitcairn island in 1838 (!), and Australia (1894-1902). France had to wait until after the Nazis to see this happen. So referenda have the potential to change not just politics, society, but even the neurohormonal balance of the planet.

As it, those 10,000 (mostly) men who rule the planet are not just any men. They are among the greediest, most delusional, most arrogant, shallowest, most self-absorbed guys around: they are selected that way, and they favor their kind… Just as banks lend to the wealthiest, to make them, and themselves, even wealthier.

Examples? Watch Nancy Pelosi, the incoming speaker of the House.  Her and her husband’s fortune maybe as much as $100 million. Not bad for someone who has only worked in politics, starting in 1987. Of course that fortune doesn’t include her five children (long ago, Pelosi was reported to be worth $250 million). The Senior Senator of California does even better: she and her husband are billionaires, a fortune gained in China by the husband, while the wife steered US policy there… These two examples are found within a radius of ten kilometers (and I don’t dislike Nancy, I prefer her, by a very long shot, to her predecessor Republican Ryan)…

It’s like that all over the planet: watch Macron, who went from highest level public finance inspection, to Rothschild Bank, to the finance ministry, to the presidency, all in 15 years, earning a fortune, living in a million dollar apartment, and, guess what, all this fortune earned by devious means, disappeared. And of course everybody knows Trump’s fortune was at the public teat the whole way…

And this is not just France and the USA. In Britain, the third of the large historical so-called democracies, the situation has become grotesque, and hurtful. As The Economist pointed out December 28, 2018, in its lead editorial “The elite that failed” (published after the first version of the present essay): “There are two popular explanations for this mayhem…a catalyst for a long-simmering civil war between successful Britain (which is metropolitan and liberal) and left-behind Britain (which is provincial and conservative). Both explanations have merit. But there is also a third: that the country’s model of leadership is disintegrating. Britain is governed by a self-involved clique that rewards group membership above competence and self-confidence above expertise. This chumocracy has finally met its Waterloo.”

Big words, and similar concepts to those I have brandished for more than a decade. If so-called Representative Democracy in Britain, France and the US has turned to “chumocracy”, in other words, oligarchy, for all to see, time for a rethink.

Verily, electoral policy doesn’t select the best, most moral and disinterested, but the exact opposite. Removing, or, at least, controlling them with referenda of We The People will make greed, delusion, arrogance, superficiality, self-absorption less influential in steering our common destiny.

Let’s do it! Limit Wealth Absolutely and modify the constitutions to enable RICs!

As explained a bit in Note 2 below, imposing an absolute wealth limit, and the Will of All through referenda, will have metaphysical consequences: it will steer humanity away from Will to Power of destruction, to Will to Power of loving creation…. 

Patrice Ayme

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Note 1: Most of these iconoclastic views of mine are more than a decade old. Some can be found in the European Tribune:

https://www.eurotrib.com/user/uid:4331/diary

I published there until the editor at the time informed me that some prominent European bankers, men of wealth and taste, insisted that I be banned. So he told me, he was sorry, he had to ban me, because contemporary bankers insisted that my views on 1930s bankers collaborating with the Nazis were outrageous and unsupported by evidence (one of these bankers claimed to me that he did an Internet search, and all the articles he could find on the entire Internet  on the subject were… mine!) In the same few months I was banned from the Daily Kos (a popular leftist site created by the… CIA…) and relegated at the bottom of search engines. Dirty tricks work: a decade later. my obvious views, which should be taught all over the world, are not just considered outlandish, but are fully ignored, as everything was done, not to divulge them to the well-meaning, but ignorant masses…

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Note 2: So I hold that the switch to plutocracy unchained caused by the non-observance of wealth limiting laws, brought the fall of the Roman Republic. The same holds for other Republics, like Firenze, which fell to bankers (the Medici).

The conventional view is much more celebrity bound and shrunk in context: Julius Caesar’s political maneuvers (rather than his generalship), say the common historians, dep in their academic cheese, which had long-lasting effects on Rome and Europe. Caesar’s critical role in going against the Roman Senate by crossing the Rubicon led to the eclipse of the Roman Republic and the emergence of the Roman Empire, the common view holds: Caesar was a bad boy, that’s all.

That (Pluto compatible) view neglects all which happened before, like Lucius Cornelius Sulla’s brutal and weird dictatorship, or Cicero’s dubious, foolhardy and ultimately self-destructive breach of law and process during the “Catiline conspiracy”…

Or, as I said, the view that it is this, or that individual’s fault neglects many major social, fiscal, political factors, such as the rise of an army, a professional army, which depended upon their leaders, the imperators (not the state!) to thrive (when Caesar and Pompey met, once, at the head of their legions, they saluted each other ironically as “Ave, imperator!“… both had the title and function… Clearly who was at fault was not Caesar (born in 100 BCE) but the plutocrats who opposed and killed the Gracchi and their supporters, two generations before Caesar’s birth. Even Marius’ professionalization of the army was a consequence of the unbounded rise of Roman plutocracy. By the way, when the Roman state collapsed in the West (400 CE to around 493 CE, when the Ostrogoths took Ravenna), the plutocracy, which had contributed to that fall in many ways, including rising private armies, stealing all the riches, refusing to pay taxes, and promoting supine, turn-the-other cheek Catholicism, joined the invading barbarian bands with gusto: it is often as if the barbarians gave the Roman plutocracy the tool and excuse they needed to enter the feudal regime…

All this to say this: the devolution of Roman plutocracy over 550 years, until final collapse, show that there are no limits to how low a plutocracy will sink, to promote the brutal, cruel and demented view of humanity which defines it with glee… And why this? Because, Ecce Homo, the Dark Side gives us the neurological passion dozens of millions of years of evolution have honed to the fine art of Homo.

SMART IGNORANCE, DARK NAIVETY, Enlightened Hatred

Sorry for those who cling to the notion of “Politically Correct” like rats do, with a sinking ship. This title is probably rather discombobulating for them. I will justify it thereafter. Yes, it can be smart to ignore much. Yes, it can be cruel and vicious to be naïve. Yes, it can be enlightened, to hate.

Yet, what does the Dark Side thinks of the text “Vous n’aurez pas ma haine/You will not have my hatred”? Does it smirk? Or does it approve of the text, totally? Surely, the latter. The technique advised by Leiris, a selective shut down of one’s mental, not to say neurological, system, is a basic functionality the Dark Side needs to operate, selective attention. There are indeed, neurological reasons for it.

Leiris’ text explores, advocates and celebrates, a crucial, actually life saving, strategy. It is a neurophilosophical approach. That is a neurological approach endorsed by the most sophisticated philosophy, as I will explain presently.

One can go much beyond what La Rochefoucauld smartly observed, more than three centuries ago.

All & Any Human Behavior Can, & Should, Be Used In All The Many Ways Circumstances May Require, For The Greater Good, Of The Greatest Sentience.

The key observation is that one can be of many minds, on many things. More exactly, the brain can, and has to, use different Modi Operandi, according to circumstances.

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The American People Is Too Naïve For Adult Material:

Is the preceding too ethereal, theoretical, vaporous, nothing to do with day-to-day reality? President Bush, the invader of Iraq, removed 28 pages of the official report on the 9/11 attack. Why? CIA Director John Brennan appeared on NBC’s “Meet the Press”, on May 1, 2016, arguing that the 28 pages should not be released because the American people are incapable of evaluating them. Americans are incapables.

Brennan explained: “I think some people may seize upon that uncorroborated, unvetted information that was in there that was basically just a collation of this information that came out of FBI files, and to point to Saudi involvement, which I think would be very, very inaccurate.” High caste Saudis, of course had nothing to do with 9/11, as demonstrated by the fact that Bush ran several flights to allow them to flee the USA when no plane was allowed to fly, inside, or out of the US.

Brennan in his stupidity, let it slip by denying it: it is known Saudi “civil servants” seem to have help the Islamists of 9/11. That would be no surprise: the SIA and CIA activated Bin Laden, and launched him as a terrorist.

Not only naivety has a Dark Side, but it can be imposed on We The People.

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Forgetfulness Can Be A Lifesaver:

When one fights for survival, nothing should matter to the brain, but for activity conducive to said survival. Neurological concentration on the situation can become close to 100%.

What happens in ultra emergency? Time stretches, while the brain mobilizes well beyond 100% (namely neurons, including motor neurons obviously work beyond their normal maximum. Thus superhuman strength and reflexes). The brain is fully in survival mode, and has no thought considered, only strategy implemented. Even sensations not useful for survival are not felt, especially pain.

This is what Mr. Leiris advocates, on the mental level. He excludes from his mind all what is not conducive to provide his son with what the baby needs, a maximally loving environment, even in harrowing circumstances. .

Had I been exactly in Antoine Leiris’ circumstances, I would have actually embraced the same mental strategy. I know, because I have already been in similar circumstances, where my mind had to concentrate absolutely: I was caught in avalanches twice, and saved my life through action which was nothing short of incredible, and resulted from extreme mental concentration. Once, an improvised Explosive Device was thrown on me by some fascists and exploded on a gentleman just in front, who acted as an unwitting human shield. from terrorism.

Why? Because at this point the brain has become god, master of life and death. Its mission is only about survival, whether insuring that of the brain, or the termination of the survival of the adversary. How does the brain focus on survival? It decides what the universe is. And it operates with an extremely simplified version of the universe, and not just of the universe of consideration. The brain also admits only a simplified version of the universe of sensation. The universe of sensations which matters for survival. The rest plain does not exist, because it is outright not perceived.

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Naivety Is Part Of The Dark Side:

Naivety can be very useful. But naivety can also kill, has killed, and nearly got me a few times. Naivety is what enables much nefariousness to produce evil industrially. Reconsider Mr. Brennan, the CIA chief, above: why is he allowed to think We The People are a bunch of unteachable idiots, hopelessly infantile, a danger to ourselves, while keeping his job?

In “You will not have my hatred“, Mr. Leiris says that, sometimes, hatred is better left out of it. Is that a new idea? No. The idea is actually central to Christiano-Islamism.

Ironically, the Qur’an reminds us every few lines that “Allah is merciful” (however, it’s not clear we should be merciful too). That obsession, that Allah forgives all day long, was directly inherited from Christianism… Where, indeed, the faithful has to be merciful.

As there is much I dislike in Islamism and Christianism, does this mean I dislike all their concepts? Far from it. I actually love a beautiful mosque or church.

And I love mercifulness. Not just because it’s pretty, but also because it’s necessary.

I think mercifulness is totally fundamental. Mercifulness is not just wise: it’s a fundamental part of the behavior of any social animal. It’s a code to correct errors. A small human group could not function without an error correcting code. The name of that code is mercifulness.

But does that mean that hatred unworthy always? No. Far from it.

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And what does “hatred” consists of, anyway?

Let’s suppose something that has happened before, on more than one continent: Patrice is out there, trying to terminate a cockroach infestation. Cockroaches are smart, fast and flat: they can squeeze in the smallest crack in the blink of an eye. So here I am, trying to kill lots of cockroaches, in all sizes from one millimeter to several centimeters. Am I animated by hatred? No. I am just concentrated on all the possibilities, the thinnest cracks. So, to commit mass murder, hatred is not necessary.

So what does hatred consist of? When is it called for? Why is it so bad? Well, the answers are rather surprising.

Hatred is called for, when it is needed. Hatred does not happen by accident. Hatred is, often a supplement of passion needed for an otherwise unsavory task. Faced with something objectively really bad, hatred is not called for. No need for hatred to eliminate mosquitoes. Hatred is needed when other passions are in the way, and these passions prevent the accomplishment of what is viewed, deep down, as a necessary task. For example, when common sense and decency are in the way. But not only. It could be love which is preventing the accomplishment of a needed task.

For example, the Nazis needed hatred to launch the Second World War. They needed the hatred to overwhelm decency, basic common sense, and whatever humanity they still harbored. However, as the war went on, the attitude of the top Nazis, say towards the French, changed. The Nazis did not need hatred anymore: the war was long launched, and was not going well. However, hatred was now in the way of many behaviors the Nazis needed to see deployed such as decency, mercifulness, common sense, humanity… and the more so, the more the war was turning against them. Well before the end, the top Nazis started to disobey Hitler’s orders.

In the end, even Himmler negotiated with the Swedes to save… Jews (they saved thousands!). It’s not just that Himmler was trying to save his precious skin from the cyanide pill in his mouth. It’s also that hatred was not needed anymore.

Hatred against the Islamist Pseudo State is obviously not needed. There is no love, decency, or common sense in the way, which we need to overcome, to accomplish the task at hand. Eradication will be plenty enough.

Finally, the president should tell the CIA that it is naïve, haughty and cruel,  to consider the American People too naïve, ignorant and malevolent, for the truth, while hoping that they are going to  live with that contempt and the trampling of their right to know, much longer.

Patrice Ayme’

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“You Will Not Have My Hatred”

Six months ago, the Wahhabist attacks in Paris killed and wounded 500. The number of victims to get financial compensation from the state is now 2,500. A young mother, one of many, including many that some would define as “Muslims”, was killed at the Bataclan, a well-known theater, where a Californian band was performing. She was perforated by bullets. Her husband of 12 years, Antoine Leiris, was watching at home their 17 months old son. The world has been talking about Antoine Leiris’ mood and system of thought.

Hours after the tragedy, Antoine Leiris posted the following touching and admirable thoughts and feelings on Facebook, which became “viral”:

“Friday night you stole the life of a being of exception, the love of my life, the mother of my son. But you will not have my hatred. I don’t know who you are and I don’t want to know it, you’re dead souls. If this God for whom you kill blindly, made us in his image, then every bullet in the body of my wife will have been a wound in his heart.

So no. I won’t make you the gift of hating you. You looked for it well, yet to respond to your hatred by anger would be giving in to the same ignorance that has made you what you are. You want me to be afraid, you want me to look at my fellow citizens with suspicion, that I sacrifice my freedom for security. You lost. The same player is still playing.

Helene Muyal Leiris with Her Son Shortly Before She Was Assassinated By Islamists In Paris

I saw her this morning. At last, after nights and days of waiting. She was as beautiful as when she left that Friday night, as beautiful as when I fell head over heels in love with her more than 12 years ago. Of course I’m devastated by grief. I’ll grant this small victory, but it will not last long. I know she will be with us every day and that we will meet again in this paradise of free souls that you’ll never have access to.

We are two, my son and me, but we are stronger than all the armies of the world. I do not have anymore time to devote to you, I have to be with Melvil who is waking up from his nap. He is barely seventeen months old. He is going to eat his afternoon snack, as he does everyday. Then we will play as we do everyday, and during his entire life, this little boy will make you the affront to be happy and free. Because no, you will not have his hatred either.”

Antoine Leiris

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For the original French version, see Facebook “Vous N’Aurez Pas Ma Haine”.

Mr. Leiris has now a vocal version of his message, and has been spreading his philosophy.

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So what do I think of this?

Sometimes, silence is the best discourse. Respect, sometimes, is best. But I can only take that much:

Naivety Springs, Eternal. But Eternity Did Not Spring From Naivety Alone.

Well, it’s a bit more complicated than that. Mr. Leiris is apparently confusing Christianism and Islamism. Same god, but there are subtle differences. In Christianism, we have been created in the image of god, indeed. Whereas in the direct Qur’an, we are his slaves. And in the Qur’an, it is ordered to “set every ambush” for the Non-Believers. Such is the “Verse of the Sword”, Sura 5, verse 9, an ABROGATING verse (meaning it makes all verses which contradict it, invalid). Sura 5, verse 9 follows Luke 19; 27 in the New Testament, showing that Christian viciousness inspired many, and far away, for centuries to come (a Christian monk arguably set the basis of Islam in the mind of his close relative, the “Prophet”, PBUH).

When god is nuts, naivety is no long term strategy.

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So what do I think of this avalanche of haughty goodness? Well, it’s a long story. I can see perfectly why Mr. Leiris decided to feel, and think, the way he did. I approve of it. It is a defense mechanism which I have, myself, used many times. Hatred is too serious a subject to be embraced frivolously.

Thus, surprisingly for some, no doubt, ignoring hatred is  not a fundamental contradiction from what I deeply advocate. As it turns out, a fundamental debate of the same sort happened during the establishment of the state of Israel.

Same as Israel, or Julius Caesar, a creature born of many subtleties will have many Modi Operandi. Everybody has many Modi Operandi. Real, habitual, virtual, potential… Like everybody else, it turns, out, but even more than everybody else, a would-be philosopher will cultivate perversely an exuberant garden of Modi Operandi (Modes of Operation in Latin; Airbus, a company which makes large flying computers uses a more arrogant concept than M.O., the word “law”. Boeing is affected my the same syndrome. Changing “laws” inappropriately will make a plane crash).

Antoine Leiris’ text is beautiful, it conveys the awesome will of putting love, freedom, play, the positive appreciation of the world,  above anything else. Putting only the positively awesome above everything else, is awesome. I will make sure to inform god of this astonishing revelation, reheated a trillion times again. I could, some will say I should, leave it at that, before I become positively obnoxious anymore. And I will restrain myself, in an exceptional moment of respectful self-control.

Just one point: Antoine observed (in an interview on ONPC) that in other people, or in other circumstances, completely different reactions would be much more appropriate. And of this we will talk later, pretty much as we did before. Here is a foretaste:

Grass is made to be trampled on, we are not. That’s how we play, and appreciate. That’s why we can play, appreciate, love, and be awesome. Survival is also a humanism.

Patrice Ayme’

WRONG HISTORY, WRONG PHILOSOPHY: Nazi Lies Still Ruling In 2015. Exposing the Real History Of Germany And Its Culpability, Starting In 1912!

THOSE WHO LIE ABOUT HISTORY CONDEMN OTHERS TO RELIVE IT.

Misinterpreting the history of what happened centuries, or even millennia ago, can have drastic consequences today. A ready made idea as simple as calling Western civilization “Christian” is an example. It is easy to argue that the “Christian” influence was not the most important influence on civilization: Greco-Romans, with law and democracy, and the Franks, with tolerance, universal education and outlawing slavery… were clearly more important than a fascist cult imposed by emperors.

As the European Union is still under construction, it is important that the enormous lies of the past get exposed, for the lies they were… Especially when they are still viewed as the truth

Example? It is important to expose the all-powerful Christianism of the Middle-Ages, and especially of the Late Roman Empire for the civilization devouring monster it was, Having reminded us of this historical set of facts, the Catholic Inquisition and all that… we can then turn to it scion, its heir, all-powerful fundamentalist Islam, and condemn it, just as vigorously, for the exact same reason, instead of licking its toes, respectfully, as Obama did. Reading history, and its biggest lies, then correcting them, enables to address the present.

All too many contemporary prominent US historians  still claim that it is “nonsense” that Christianism caused proximally the fall of Rome… When that idea, found explicitly in the works of philosopher-emperor Julian is 17 centuries old… And obviously correct as the Frigidus River battle, in 394 CE, annihilated the Occidental Roman army at the hands of Goths and fanatical Christians united.

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Greece owes around 65 billion Euros to Germany, from the Greek “rescue” plan, a neat trick to have the Greek People pay for (mostly foreign) banks. Syriza, the new government in Greece (a party from the left in coalition with a nationalist party) is asking for more than 160 billion Euros in reparations for the assault, invasion of Greece by Germany in 1941… Which may have brought the death of more than 800,000 Greeks.

Do Those Who Hate The Versailles Treaty Also Believe the Nazis’ “Work Makes Free”?

[As we have seen before, and will see again below, the tradition in American circles, is to accuse the French to have invented Nazism… And that’s exactly what the Nazis said. It’s also a giant lie. A racist, holocaust force lie.]

The Nazis’ exactions in Greece were so extensive, that it is difficult to know how many died; a typical assassination by the Nazis was not an orderly extermination in an extermination camp involving processing by IBM computer (!), but shooting of an entire family in some thicket, as the Nazis wanted to leave no trace of their activities.

Paul Krugman is getting bolder Weimar on the Aegean:”Try to talk about the policies we need in a depressed world economy, and someone is sure to counter with the specter of Weimar Germany, supposedly an object lesson in the dangers of budget deficits and monetary expansion. But the history of Germany after World War I is almost always cited in a curiously selective way. We hear endlessly about the hyperinflation of 1923, when people carted around wheelbarrows full of cash, but we never hear about the much more relevant deflation of the early 1930s, as the government of Chancellor Brüning — having learned the wrong lessons — tried to defend Germany’s peg to gold with tight money and harsh austerity.

And what about what happened before the hyperinflation, when the victorious Allies tried to force Germany to pay huge reparations? That’s also a tale with a lot of modern relevance, because it has a direct bearing on the crisis now brewing over Greece.”

Krugman argues that the policy imposed on Greece now is what sank the so-called Weimar republic. Nice on the surface, false when one looks at the details. (Weimar was NOT a republic, to star with.)

But here I am going to set Krugman right about history:

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REAL HISTORY OF FASCIST, RACIST GERMANY 1912-1953:

In 1953, the victorious Allies decided Germany ought nothing for Nazism (this is what Syriza is now contesting). The history of Germany in the period 1912-1953 is relevant to the present Greek tragedy.

On December 8, 1912, it was a Sunday, the Kaiser brought his six top military men in a conference. It was decided by that august assembly, that the ascent of the ever more prosperous French Republic and her vast empire, combined with the democratization of Russia, left the German plutocracy behind, and that only attacking them militarily, as soon as possible, would solve the problems.

The two admirals objected that they would never be ready to fight a world war within 18 months. The Kaiser insisted that they had to work more on the press to get the German population ready for war.

On June 1, 1914, Colonel House, the right hand man of USA president Wilson, secretly proposed to the Kaiser an alliance, with Britain, against France, if the Kaiser would stop his naval force built-up. This meant the US would not tolerate an embargo against Germany (more may have been said in private). This is what happened and enabled Germany to extend the war.

Germany attacked on August first, and nearly lost its entire army in a French counter-attack next to Paris, in September (in the First Battle of the Marne).

However, corporations of the USA, for years, fed the otherwise landlocked Kaiser kingdom with war supplies, for years, through the Netherlands.

France and Britain complained to Washington, but they were not going to declare war to the USA.

After Wilson re-election in 1917, the USA declared war to Germany, just as the Soviets made peace with Germany, conceding a gigantic territory Russia had occupied in Eastern Europe since 1815 (including Poland, Ukraine, etc.).

In 1918, Germany lost the war it had started deliberately, taking  everybody by surprise.

A last, all-out attack by the German army on Paris, the second Battle of the Marne, was decimated by a deluge of French artillery fire, and was finished with a pincer counterattack by 50 Allied divisions (including 2 American and 45 French).

The retreating German army, under orders, scorched north-eastern France, flooding the mines, dynamiting all production centers, and even Middle-Ages castles, burning all telephone poles.

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GERMAN PLUTOCRACY WAS NOT DEFANGED BY THE VERSAILLES TREATY:

The Kaiser fled. However, the Prussian-German plutocracy he left behind still controlled most of the press, and the legend took hold in Germany that the German army had not been defeated.

Instead, Germans were indoctrinated: their army had not been defeated, it had been stabbed in the back. Germans were told that traitors inside Germany made the revolution that caused the defeat (the other way around from the real reality).

Those traitors were the Communists, and the Jews, they had to be killed. A civil war started, and units of the German army were employed to do just that.

As Germany was not occupied by the Allies, the Allies basically did not prevent those satanic ideas to take hold of Germany.

The Allies had not cut-off the head of the snake (as would be done after May 1945). Clemenceau predicted in 1919 that Germany, would attack 20 years later, again (as it did).

Except, next time, Germany was out to kill all the Communists and Jews.

The Paris peace conference of 1919 forced Germany to give independence to the countries it had long occupied, such as Czechoslovakia, and Poland.

It is shocking to see Paul Krugman repeat what would become one the mantra of the Nazis. Krugman: “First, Germany’s economy had already been devastated by the war.” It’s France, Belgium and Eastern Europe who had been devastated. Not one square meter of Germany had been occupied and thus “devastated”.

“Second, says Krugman, the true burden on that shrunken economy would — as John Maynard Keynes explained in his angry, powerful book “The Economic Consequences of the Peace” — be far greater than the direct payments to the vengeful Allies.”

Yes Keynes may have said this, but this was not his most important message. Lord Keynes explains in his book that amputating the German empire from all the nations it occupied (“the economic consequence of the peace”) would indeed devastate the German empire.

And that it sure would, because the entire idea of many nations in 1919, including the French, was to dismantle the plutocratic empire Germany had set for itself in the middle of Europe. Lord Keynes showed his true intent, when he wrote in his racist book, that the Poles were an inferior race, and that they cannot manage an economy.

Such things are never said, so nobody knows them.

Thus our friend Krugman intones what became the German credo: “In the end, and inevitably, the actual sums collected from Germany fell far short of Allied demands. But the attempt to levy tribute on a ruined nation — incredibly, France actually invaded and occupied the Ruhr, Germany’s industrial heartland, in an effort to extract payment — crippled German democracy and poisoned relations with its neighbors.”

What is truly incredible is how ignorant of true history Krugman is.

My opinion, shared by Belgium and France in 1923, is quite the opposite. Even Paris itself had been bombed by the attacking Germans, and under long range artillery fire. That’s devastation. Germany was intact, differently from devastated Belgium and France.

The legend that Germany was devastated was most profitable to the Nazis and their plutocratic collaborators, on both sides of the Atlantic.

Repeating The Biggest Lies of the Nazis Is Still Common Wisdom

“The English follow the principle that when one lies, one should lie big, and stick to it. They keep up their lies, even at the risk of looking ridiculous.” Joseph Goebbels (Nazi propaganda minister).

The biggest Nazi lie of all was that the Versailles Treaty devastated Germany. And this is what many an American university parrot has said ever since (as it allowed to punish France, that was USA profitable!). For more on the Big Lie Technique, see: “Mediating Pluto“.

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IN 1919, GERMANY WAS INTACT, AND SO WAS ITS PLUTOCRACY, NASTIER THAN EVER:

Germany was intact, but Germany did not want to pay. That would have been to recognize what happened in 1914, namely that Germany attacked France and Russia deliberately, knowing full well it would cause a world war (that its racist plutocracy hoped to win, with the a little help from the USA).

Why was history not learned in 1919? Some of the worst men who had caused World War One were in power in Germany, after the war.

An example is Dr. Schacht, a protégé of JP Morgan (yes, the American banker). Schacht was such a crook, his commanding Prussian general fired him for exploiting occupied Belgium. However, in 1923, he commanded the German Central Bank. To foil the French, Dr. Schacht decided to make German money worthless, by hyper inflating the money supply.

Paul Krugman wrote in his blog: “We know that part of the reason large postwar reparations were such an unreasonable and irresponsible demand was the dire, shrunken state of the German economy after World War I.”

“Large, unreasonable, irresponsible postwar reparations” were a German Nazi legend.

Why did the Germans think of this legend? Because they had tried that trick, just prior.

Indeed, Chancellor Bismarck, after the Franco-Prussian war of 1870-1871, imposed on the French Republic exactly that sort of “large, unreasonable, irresponsible postwar reparations”.

Bismarck’s hope was that France would not be able to pay, and so war could be started again. In any case, his plan was to hinder the French economy indefinitely.(He got disappointed, as France paid, unexpectedly, in five years!)

So Germany was expert at the idea of mutilating reparations: after all, it invented the idea. (That’s why it should pay Greece now!)

The German economy shrunk by 25% in GDP, most of it during 1914, the year Germany attacked the world. Pushing a two million man army through Belgium will make your economy shrink.

What are those “large postwar reparations”? Intact Germany disingenuously argued that it could not pay, except in worthless paper.

The French Republic insisted that Germany had enormous forests, and could easily replace the tens of thousands of French telephone poles it had just destroyed. Was replacing the telephone poles the German army had deliberately destroyed in 1918 throughout a large part of France “large, unreasonable, and irresponsible?”

It was the refusal by Germany to replace these telephone poles that precipitated the crisis of 1923.

The French Republic, reasonably enough, decided that the German refusal to replace the telephone poles it just destroyed was indicative of a total lack of cooperation. So France, accompanied by Belgium, invaded the Ruhr.

What went really wrong is that it did not stay until reason had prevailed in Germany. Suppose that the French army had occupied Germany, until the Germans calm down, and wiser heads told the Germans what had really happened in World War One? How bad would have that been?

No Auschwitz?

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JEWS WHO HATE THE VERSAILLES TREATY LOVE NAZISM:

In 1945, the French military fought inside Germany, and would stay there for the next 54 years, until the creation of the Franco-German brigade in 1999.

Properly digesting history is what enables civilization to survive and progress. History cannot turn into civilization unless it has been thoroughly examined.

Krugman is a Jew. He had said so himself, while recognizing he was very much cut off his roots. For Jews (!) to repeat like deranged parrots the very legends that gave rise to Nazism is beyond the pale, it’s falling into the abyss.

Why?

Because sometimes in the future, people in the West will ask: ‘Why was Israel created, if what the Nazis said was true?’ If it is true, as the Nazis claimed, that the French were the ones who launched Nazism with their exploitation of Germany, treacherously using the German Jews to stab the glorious German military from behind, did not the Jews deserve to be punish?

Well, the answer is the Nazis lied, and having Jews like Paul Krugman telling us that they did not, cannot change the reality of what happened.

Human minds cannot distort reality all they want. Nature, even human nature, is out there to correct outrageous errors. The hard way.

Patrice Ayme’

Don’t Feed the Bear: All Putin Needs Is Comfy War

YOU WANT PEACE? MAKE WAR COSTLY

The French and German leaders are meeting again with Putin to make him recover reason: it reminds me of Munich, 1938, when the French and British leaders were trying to make Hitler reasonable.

France and Germany together have a slightly larger population than Russia, but three and a half time the GDP. (By the way, what happened to Britain? Well London is full of Russian plutocrats and banking institutions keen to make Assad and Putin possible; hence the British discretion.)

An Ukrainian in the street interviewed by German TV said it was out of the question to give territory to Putin: if one gives him a finger, he will take the entire arm.

Putin Wants “The Big Country” Back, & Its Prospect of Endless War

In the West, cowardly pacifists say: do not provoke Putin, do as he says, he has nukes and will attack, if lethal defensive weapons are sent to Ukraine. That makes them collaborators of evil.

This is rather curious that pacifists use a fundamentally bellicose argument: don’t try to stop the mad man, he may get offended, and kill everybody.

Indeed, a mad man’s madness with criminal insanity overtones, makes the case for the greatest severity. So the essence of the pacifist whining call for the greatest severity to be applied on Putin, right away.

Because what are pacifists saying? Putin is the most dangerous Leader, ever. So let’s be nice to him.

It is now known that, had the USA and Britain be as firm as France against Hitler in the 1930s, Hitler’s own generals would have made a coup against him.

But, instead, Britain and the USA made concession after concession to Hitler. So Hitler flew from success to success, undermining any mood critical of him. How can one criticize a winner? Clearly, it was unpatriotic. It made the top German generals and marshals who thought that the dictator was completely crazy, and a danger to Germany look like traitors.

Something similar is developing with Putin. As he occupied and annexed territory in Georgia, Moldavia, and now Ukraine, and the West proved incapable to stop him, he looks ever more like a winner. Putin’s avowed goal is to bring back what he calls the “New Russia” (half of Ukraine) and the “Big Country” (the USSR). Pacifists say that the fundamental strategic interest of Russia is at play, so . di, Putin flies from success to success.

So where does Putin stop? This is what pacifists have to know, if they do not want to be simple collaborators of evil.

But of course, they don’t know.

Should we then keep our fingers cross, and hope for the best?

Why?

Because Putin killed only 100,000 in Chechnya? Because Catherine the Great stopped 80 kilometers from Berlin? Not a safe bet: Catherine did not have nukes.

Behaving now as nothing will stop Putin, but for the application of overwhelming force is not safe, but it is the safest strategy. If Putin is completely crazy, overwhelming force won’t stop him. But nothing will anyway, especially after he has fully armed himself, as he is presently doing, Hitler-like.

If Putin is not completely crazy, the threat of overwhelming force will stop him.

Not trying to stop him, if he is not completely crazy, will certainly make Putin completely crazy. Be it completely crazy with greed.

As I tried to explain, Putin, like Hitler before him, and Napoleon, and many (not all) conquerors before him, has discovered that war unites the People behind him, and make all the People think as one, and the name of that one, is Putin. This is what I call the fascist instinct. It is crucial to enable a (relatively) weak primate, far from any tree, to conquer the Savannah and Steppe, heretofore ruled by formidable predators.

Putin’s rule has been a disaster. Thus he needs to activate the fascist instinct in the Russian People. Thus he needs war.

Thus, if pacifists give him Ukraine, Putin will be deeply unhappy: he did not want Ukraine. He wanted war. War gives him fascism, thus the ability to rule. In this light, the reign of Louis XIV of France can be better understood.

After millions of Protestants had left France, and France has lost considerable territory in continuous wars, Louis XIV of France, the self-described “Sun-King” (“Roi-Soleil”) feebly bleated that his advisers had poorly advised him about Protestants: it had not been a good idea to have harassed, despoiled, and submit them to “Dragonades” (occupation of Protestant households by elite troops called “Dragons”).

However, Louis XIV, a dedicated fascist, hater of the “Republic”, lied (as fascists are wont to). Louis XIV had continual wars, and particularly against innocent civilians, because he needed continual wars, because that justified his fascist, personal rule.

Louis XIV was not afraid of war, he was afraid of peace, because peace meant the Parliament may want to re-establish the Republic again (which is what the “Fronde” was all about).

Napoleon faithfully executed the same scheme (because De Sade, one of the Revolution’s principals, had criticized the aggressive, expansionist war making, Napoleon put him in a mental asylum).

The same exact mechanism caused the First World War, with the Kaiser playing the role of Louis XIV. The Jews played the role of the Protestants under Louis XIV.

Soon Stalin would institute continual internal war, to justify the dictatorship of the Politburo which he headed. Hitler repeated the method.

So are we condemned to repeat history? Not so, if we learn how it works.

Putin got his 85% approval rating, from his activation of the fascist instinct.

However, the very latest polls show that the Russian People is getting wary of Putin’s protest of innocence about the war: 70 percent stated that Russia was assisting the breakaway rebels of Donetsk and Luhansk. Good. However, the same polling show that now most Russians think that establishing “Novorossia” (“New Russia”) is a good idea.

In other words, Russians are turning t the Dark Side: they know their dictator is making war in a foreign nation, but they are starting to approve the invasion of that nation, and its annexation.

Why?

Same story as what happened in the German collective psyche after Hitler annexed the Republic of Austria. Then the Germans became favorable to other annexations (Czechoslovakia, some Baltic states, much of Poland, etc.) Because Hitler had proven to be a winner.

As far as the Russians are concerned, Putin is a winner, so he has got to be right. Not right on the facts, but morally right: Ukraine, like Georgia or Moldova, is Russian property.

Want to turn Putin into a loser? Do it on the battlefield. And do like him: play dirty, send efficient weapons stealthily first.

Patrice

Leveraged Morality Needed

New Morality, Greece, Final Solution, Poisonous Apple, Mayhem, etc.

We live in a highly leveraged world. Not only do we have H bombs, but smart phones, for years, have been smarter at chess than any human player, by a very long shot.

Maybe we should exert our minds with higher pursuits than chess. Morality comes to mind.

In highly leveraged world, morality, too, has to be highly leveraged.

One cannot just condemn guilty acts, one has to condemn the ideas and moods which led to these guilty acts, when they can be discerned.

Thus the more advanced morality we need requires more discernment, more… discrimination.

A French Jihadist, Mohammed Merah, ambushed French paratroopers, one by one. He ordered one of them to kneel. The paratrooper refused. He was shot to death, standing up. He was also a Muslim (and his mother, who is deeply republican, wears a scarf).

How do we know this? Merah was wearing video equipment. That means he was sure to be acting in the name of righteousness (who is more righteous than Allah?)

Merah went to shoot children at a Jewish elementary school (that was also the plan in the latest Paris attacks, but the terrorist had to switch to a Jewish supermarket).

One of the little girls fled. Merah pursued the seven year old, grabbed her by the hair, and shot her to death. This is all on video. Such videos should be shown.

They should be shown, because horror motivates to ask the question: what is it in the systems of thought and moods the likes of Merah believe in, that led them to behave exactly as the very worst SS? (Those who read this site religiously know the answer.)

An ex-French justice minister, main proponent of the outlawing of the death penalty in France, Badinter was relating this, and reflecting that, after 70 years of commemorations of the Holocaust, one came back to the same anti-Jewish hatred as when the Nazis reigned.

Badinter said that he believed there was a Dark Side to man. He stopped there.

Indeed, there is a Dark Side, and I know exactly where it comes from.

It’s an evolutionary advantageous trait.

One plays with it, at one’s own risk.

The world grab of plutocrats is exactly the sort of things hatred is supposed to address (Hitler was already riling against “plutocrats”… However, Obama-like, he was financed and propped by them!)

What Badinter ought to ask, is why people such as Merah have so much hatred?

Syriza, the Greek left, has the same program as the French Socialists had in 2012. So Syriza is standard socialism.

The French Socialists did not deliver. Not just that, but the Dear French Socialists, headed by an investment banker, Macron, are trying to pass a law preventing blasphemy… about high finance. The interesting question is why this is happening. Is it just greed, or realizing that the world, headed by Obama’s sponsors, is too mighty to be changed, and thus collaboration is best, as under Vichy?

Meanwhile, people get jailed in Egypt for atheism. New York Time’s Egypt’s War on Atheism

“It took one session on Jan. 10 for a court in the Nile Delta … to sentence Karim al-Banna, a 21-year-old student, to three years in prison for saying … that he was an atheist… Mr. Banna was originally arrested, in November, when he went to the police to complain that his neighbors were harassing him… his name had appeared in a local newspaper on a list of known atheists. Instead of protecting him, the police accused him of insulting Islam.”

Whining about Insulting Islam is the gift that keeps on giving… Secularism is about living in one’s age. This is what the word “secularism” means. It is actually a neutral concept.

Those who impose a particular god are obviously not living in our age. Indeed, in this age, thanks to the Internet, all those who know how to read know of many gods. Hinduism proposes already a million gods. Which one to choose? Why to choose one? Most of these gods are more than twice older than Muslim god, or his “messenger”.

So choosing a particular god of the past is to choose a particular view point from the past. Imposing this shrunk, obsolete version of the world, makes for very small cultures and the small minds they spawned.

This creates countries that do not compete very well economically and culturally. Such countries are poor and engaged in a vicious spiral down the drain of history.

Thus imposing theocracy while so many other countries are (mostly) secularist is a great disservice to Egypt. Laicity, the opposite of the choosing of particular god(s) is not just superior philosophically, and culturally, it’s the easiest way to higher economic performance.

So, if theocracy is such a terrible thing, why does it arise? Because theocracy is oppressive, and, thus, justifies oppression. All the way to the bottom of souls.

Theocracy is the best friend of those who take themselves for gods… And that is why theocracy is generally imposed by generals (Constantine and Theodosius were the Roman emperors who imposed Christianism; Muhammad and the early Caliphs were all war chiefs).

So do not ask how to stop the hatred. Asked, instead how it got started.

In Europe, clearly, making everybody poorer in job prospects, education and wealth, played a role. And this is not a problem localized in Europe, with European solutions. Quite the opposite. By refusing to reduce its emissions of carbons in the last 30 years, the USA and its Chinese pet, gained a huge economic advantage.

Apple just made PROFITS (profits, not just revenue) of 18 billion dollars. In three months. Yes eighteen billion. Selling 74 million smart phones, a lot of them in China. I guess the little plot is going strong. This is the largest profits by a corporation, ever (including the oil giants in their rimes).

Apple ferries hundreds of billions of profit through the tiny, tax-free British Virgin Island. 

A world like that will lead to ever more Jihadism, and bigger and better weapons can be had, thus forcing us into ever more of a police state.

Humiliating people leads to revolt, and revolt, rebellion, lead to progress, by throwing down hateful moods and ideas. So it always has been, so it always will be.

Patrice Ayme’