This is stuff I wrote when the link went down while I was in the middle of a news post at http://opitslinkfest.blogspot.com/

Friday the 13th - Bad Omens

 I expect catcalls from idiots from all over.

Fair Play is such a crazy idea.

US Moves to Seize Four Mosques, Claiming Secret Iranian Control
http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii/index.php?q=node/8904

CASMII is not your everyday 'Politically Correct' organization. Whoever runs it makes a point of trying to be fair...and raising hell about what they see as wrong.

 Seizing of property is something with a long historical precedent...which was decried enthusiastically. I have some historical notes with the article on Blogger. But here I'm not highlighting news and background - just letting it all hang out.

When I saw the headline from CASMII about the U.S. government seizing religious-organization owned property it was a jaw-dropper. I tried to think of where I had missed the particulars allowing the government to override freedom of religion. Mind, religion has been a tool of government since the year dot. I call myself a Christian because I observe the idea that 'religious organizations' should not have secular power over people...any more than governments should have unlimited power over their citizens. So I sympathize with the Society of Friends...which will likely end up underground again, fighting tyranny.
But back to the Christian thing : people called to be peacemakers shouldn't be flogging murder. It's rather contraindicated in the basics, if you know what I mean. And why Jesus ? Just because I grew up on the stories of Jesus...which were full of mean people trying to put him in jail for speaking his mind...and people agreed with what he said so much 'organized religion' cooked up a political scheme to murder him.
It's said you can't have an online discussion on politics without mentioning Nazis. Funny that. I read more material than enough putting the genesis of Nazism in the 'Land of the Free'...which kindly provided a home to SS postwar due to 'national security'.
Don't think I'm being 'Holier Than Thou' with this. I know very well that the Great Charter of 1215 ( Magna Carta ) was a reaction of the hereditary executive to constant depradations of the state in imprisoning, torturing and killing without restraint. The War Measures Act in Canada and the U.K. mean we don't need a 'Patriot Act' : we've had its equivalent for years !


But the seizing of property has unfortunate precedents...not just in German actions in Poland but also in Allied actions against Japanese citizens. Not that parts of foreign nations hadn't been seized by Empire. That's how the British Empire - and those of other European nations - was made. Organized murder of strangers in their own place.
The citizens have been bought off by the proceeds of those actions. And now....the piper is calling for his due. The growth of population and mining, manufacturing and agriculture are all at crisis point.
I've made my posts here ( meaning on Blogger ) in the past few months outlining how disease, starvation and thirst are the inevitable result of curent policy. Less obvious have been the little but important problems of runaway exposure to all sorts of environmental toxins, radioactive waste dumping at sea, cancer deaths from unknown causes - DU not being officially covered - and from cleanup of crude oil spills.
That would indicate the idea of primitive life form being brought up from underground not a nutty idea. Viruses are simple...but prions like those causing Mad Cow are even more so.
And the people I have been calling the Fourth Reich are acting more like it every year. Forget Republican / Democratic when you know lobbyists and corporations run the railroad.
'Run a Railroad'. Visions of Dachau and other camps in that. 'Schindler's List'.  Two American Presidents warned against the power of the Military-Industrial Complex : as in the Pentagon. Ike...Eisenhower...built a national highways system.  JFK...interfered with CIA plans by denying authorization for military actions against Cuba. We know what happened to him.
( Rather takes one back to the idea of a secret treaty with Moscow over Cuba : blockaded by the USA despite world opinion for half a century )

We have a problem, people.
Hopefully some of you have followed the revelations about the true situation vis a vis Iran. Bluntly stated, the US position is a crock of shit...inherited from the UK. The US government has been carrying out what are essentially acts of war against Iran for a long time...they changed the government once years back and carried out psyops during the latest election. Sanctions and monetary control/deprivation games go hand in hand with stories worthy of Rush Limbaugh.

Huh ? What's that ?
Easy. If nothing else the BBC broadcasts into Iran should tell you which way the wind is blowing.
Rather like the 'Voice of Amerikkka.'
But now actions to alleviate suffering and spread education abroad are anti-U.S.
Rather revealing, isn't it ?


1930's : First, they came for the Jews...
Updated version : First, they came for the Muslims...