THEY SAW THE FAT ONE COMING

     The title of today's article is taken from an old 60s Counter-Culture song but seems to be appropriate for the subject matter. The results of a study came out yesterday, which I think that we all saw coming and it speaks volumes about the state of American Culture. 

    "Marijuana use has become so mainstream in the US that the number of Americans who smoke the drug on a daily basis has surpassed the number who consume liquor with the same frequency, a new study has revealed. An estimated 17.7 million Americans used cannabis daily or almost daily in 2022...Prior to the wave of new marijuana laws, daily pot use reached a low point of less than 1 million Americans in 1992. Since then, per-capita rates of regular marijuana use have jumped 15-fold."

   

      Yes, yet another specimen of our exceptional culture that all of our enemies envy and want to destroy. An interesting---and probably not unrelated study that came out last year noted that within that same time frame found that American IQ Scores have been in consistent decline, noting that "test scores in three out of four cognitive domains were going down. This is the first time we’ve seen a consistent negative slope for these testing categories." 

    Before the usual Reactionary crowd starts piping up that this only happens in Liberal Pinko-Blue States, let's take a look at some actual numbers:

    Which would seem to indicate that most hardcore potheads are hardcore Fox News viewers: Minneapolis and Portland being the only Liberal strongholds in the Top Ten cities for Marijuana use. If anybody's interested in seeing some more data, 'Red States' didn't fare very well in deployment of other drugs either. Some of the cities with the lowest per capita drug use included some surprises: the lowest rates recorded in some cities allegedly suffering an "immigrant invasion" of violent drug gangs like Miami and El Paso and a few so-called Sanctuary Cities, for example.

   As we've noted here before, there is a major difference in the potency of Marijuana available since it's gone mainstream and what was circulating underground a few years ago. What's available today is comparable to Hashish in both its effects and potency and studies have shown a distinct correlation between cognitive decline and marijuana use as well as higher levels of intelligence-related birth defects in babies born to using mothers.

   China---which has had a tragic history from drug trafficking---did an in-depth article on the subject of drug abuse in America. Their report noted that "According to a report on the OpenSecrets website in April 2022, the marijuana and cannabis industry spent over $4.2 million lobbying on a variety of issues and legislation in 2021, including the Marijuana Opportunity, Reinvestment, and Expungement (MORE) Act of 2021 which aimed to remove marijuana from the list of federally controlled substances. Amazon also spent $14.5 million funding lobbying activities between April and December in 2021 on a variety of bills, including the MORE Act, read the report. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), the sole Republican co-sponsor of the bill, has received more money from the marijuana industry than any other member of Congress with $52,100 in contributions received since his election in 2017." Considering the amount of loot that so-called Conservatives are raking off the Narcotics Industry, we can see why most of their rhetoric is only empty talk and scapegoating. China became the first country to ban high-potency Marijuana derivatives---many of which are available for retail sale in the US---in 2021 and its use except in industrial hemp is also banned. They also noted how our exceptionalism and exporting Democracy has led to social deterioration via narcotics in countries which our Pentagon has 'liberated.'

   

     Today, over 2/3 of Americans favor legalizing Marijuana as opposed to only 1/8 in 1969. The shift has been the result of a massive Media blitz headed by the shylocks on Madison Avenue and billions from Corporate advertising and vested interests. It should come as no surprise that organizations like the World Economic Forum are big promoters of legalization. WEF Agenda Contributor Jeremy Berke, a writer for the sleazy Business Insider praised Canada's legalization efforts in 2018 and hoped that it would pressure the United States to follow suit. Tessa Love, another Agenda Contributor promoting the WEF's 'Green Technology' scams, is editor of Inside.com's Cannabis Newsletter. 

    The question of how we can turn things around is not an easy one. There is no political will to address the problem; and considerable economic and ideological opposition to changing the Status Quo. The problem goes beyond simple recreational use, as the Chinese study pointed out, social malaise is a huge factor. 

    "An increasing number of young people are turning to drugs due to dwindling economic opportunities and the apparent death of the so-called 'American Dream.' Most of them take drugs because they're bored, or because of depression brought about by economic insecurity. Taking drugs allows them to dull the pain from modern American society...Apart from social recession or crises that stimulate drug use at times, the severe inaccessibility to quality education targeting young people is also another contributing factor behind the US' drug abuse problem," experts noted.

   In other words, Marijuana represents a form of Escapism which can be linked culturally to the pervasive apathy and loss of historical perspective seen in the narcissistic culture which lives for the present and has both contempt for its past and sees little hope in the future. The Drug Crisis is a symptom rather the cause of a far deeper spiritual problem rotting the United States from the inside out.

   The Globalist Elites though are happy with the situation. Not only is a stupefied and apathetic population easier to manage and exploit; addiction creates dependence. The ideal state---which our Oligarchy has nearly succeeded in achieving--- is one where social approval is tied to cannabis consumption. In the end, Marijuana use is now directed to its ultimate purpose: creating the illusion of freedom in a culture which no longer values liberty.

     

    

    

   

    

    

    

KLAUS SCHWAB STEPS DOWN AS WEF CHAIR

     After a 53-year career of undermining Western Civilization and working feverishly with global financial Oligarchs to build a Techno-Fascist Fourth Reich, WEF Chairman Klaus Schwab announced his retirement today, apparently settling back to an emeritus status within the organization. While Schwab's retirement from worldly affairs is certainly no great loss to humanity; it doesn't represent an overall gain. Schwab, like George Soros before him, appointed his carefully-groomed offspring to key positions and promoted fanatical henchmen to keep their Evil Empires going in perpetuity.

   Schwab's second-in-command and probable successor is Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, another aging Oligarch with suspected Nazi heritage and former CEO of Nestle. The WEF bureaucracy is packed with operatives with ties to Nestle. Along with BlackRock and the Gates Foundation, Nestle is probably one of the most powerful Corporate interests within the organization. Currently, Nestle is the world's top agribusiness cartel. In case anyone's interested, the next three largest conglomerates in that sector (PepsiCo, Coca-Cola, and Unilever) are also WEF Strategic Partners and Financial Octopus BlackRock holds significant shares in nearly all of the Top Ten.

    One of Brabeck-Letmathe's top agendas has been extending Big Ag's control over the food supply to the water supply as well. He remarked once that:

   “Water is, of course, the most important raw material we have today in the world. It’s a question of whether we should privatize the normal water supply for the population. And there are two different opinions on the matter. The one opinion, which I think is extreme, is represented by the NGOs, who bang on about declaring water a public right. That means that as a human being you should have a right to water. That’s an extreme solution. The other view says that water is a foodstuff like any other, and like any other foodstuff it should have a market value. Personally, I believe it’s better to give a foodstuff a value so that we’re all aware it has its price, and then that one should take specific measures for the part of the population that has no access to this water, and there are many different possibilities there.”

   We don't know at this point who actually will replace Schwab, but Brabeck-Letmathe is a fair specimen of the type who likely will. Schwab has spent over a half century building this global criminal enterprise which grooms Young Global Leaders, many of whom have assumed high positions in Western Governments and industries. The WEF is a massive bureaucracy---a de facto government with its own bank, its own State Religion, and its own people in command of the military forces of the West. Its list of 'Strategic Partners' includes major banks, government contractors, energy consortia, media conglomerates, Big Ag, Big Pharma; along with old established Royal Families and activist NGOs. The WEF probably controls more economic sectors and political spheres than the entire nation of China at this point: yet, their stooges in our Deep State focus on the 'China Threat' instead of the real threat inside of our own borders. 

   In America's fake Election Year, neither Party---except for a few fringe candidates--are even addressing the hostile takeover of the United States by vested interests. In fact, this weekend Corporate apologist Rainer Zitelmann penned another article circulating widely within the Controlled Opposition Media explaining to the True Believers out there that Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are excellent role models for the New World Order and that people who might oppose them are simply envious. 

   "In capitalist societies, envy seems to manifest itself more intensely than in previous eras. In capitalist societies, social standing is not determined by lineage or birthright, for, before the law, everyone is equal. In reality, though, competition does not lead to equality but to inequality. And people can react quite differently to this inequality: some respond by striving to reduce the gap between themselves and the rich by trying to improve their own situation. Such people see the rich as a source of inspiration. They seek to learn from successful figures such as Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk by buying a biography or two and studying them to see what insights they can glean. Others react with envy. Like the protesters who set up a guillotine in front of Jeff Bezos’ $23 million mansion in Washington, D.C."

  What this dumbbell willfully fails to realize is that resentment towards people like Bezos and Musk is less from envy of their wealth than the fact that---contrary to what Zitelmann asserts---in our 'capitalist' society everyone is not equal before the law. People like Bezos and Musk are laws unto themselves: government regulatory agencies are captured by Big Business and armies of lobbyists and soft-money donors literally write policies to their clients' own benefit. 

   Zitelmann hypocritically points to China as an example of successful de-regulation. After readers finish laughing over this assertion, we'll explain further.

    In contrast to the United States, China actually does take 'equality before the law' seriously. As an example of this, there was an explosion in China at an outdoor diner recently which killed 31 people. China threw the businessmen in charge of the operation in jail and later indicted the Government officials responsible for enforcing safety regulations. 

   Contrast this with America's recent disaster at the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore. The very people responsible for the disaster were the ones tasked with dealing with it. No one has ever been held accountable, nor likely will they. The examples of these kinds of injustices could go on: Big Pharma getting protection from liability for effects of the Loyalty Vaxx; banks getting taxpayer bailouts for their own incompetence in causing economic turmoil; various other disasters and abuses of labor getting swept under the rug, etc. It's not envy that people feel: it's the resentment against uncontrolled and unaccountable power that these institutions freely employ against our guaranteed rights under the law.

   Dominated as they are with such attitudes and with the proliferation of the Prosperity Gospel within their ranks, it is unlikely that we'll see any significant restraint on unlimited Corporate power in the United States any time soon. The best than can be said of today's Republicans is that they don't fundamentally disagree with Moneyed Interests ruling the country, they just want to change the focus of how these interests are doing it. 

   

   

   

   

MONDAY CONGRESSIONAL CHIMP-OUTS

     After a weekend of gloating over the death of Iranian President Ibraham Raisi, Congress---under the nominal control of a political party---the 'Conservative' element was up in fighting form again. Not, of course, fighting for the Constitution or against government over-reach, or rebuilding our collapsing infrastructure; but a full-fledged scapegoat hunt was launched as the Election Season grows nearer. 

   The activists running around in diapers at campaign rallies are no doubt pleased, despite none of the Republicans' recent legislative endeavors making the slightest bit of sense. For example, after a top GOP Senator called for deploying atomic weapons on Gaza and Congress pushed a Bill to force the Junta to send Israel more weapons, the same Republicans embargoed Chinese cotton on the fake news story that China was committing Genocide against Moslems. Speaker Mike Johnson, who has been busy combing the countryside for cattle to send to Israel for a ritual sacrifice, and who hears voices in his head telling him that Ukro-Nazi mercenaries are an Army of God, gave the GOP a pep-talk on the need to support our NATO proxies allies, which this week conducted military parades showing off NATO's commitment to Western values. 

                     

      Sadly, these things weren't the only displays of the Conservative-Industrial Complex' increasing disconnection from reality. Some pinhead on the Fox News Channel commented on the recent meeting between the Russian and Chinese Presidents that “This would never happen under Trump. This was one of Trump’s goals never to allow this to happen!” even though Putin and Xi met seven times during Trump's Presidency. 

     The real meltdown happened this morning, though, after the International Criminal Court indicted Zionist strongman Benjamin Netanyahu for Crimes Against Humanity. They also indicted three leaders of Hamas (no outrage over that, of course). Their terroristic threats against the ICC apparently went unheeded: maybe after witnessing Texas Governor Greg Abbott's leniency toward convicted killers on political grounds, the judges assumed that there would be no pushback if they threw in a few Hamas leaders for good measure. 

    The ICC has an interesting history. It was actually promoted by American Neocons until the other signatories to the ICC Treaty made it clear that American leaders wouldn't run it to enforce their New World Order. George "you're for us or against us" Bush---who supported the Treaty until then, withdrew from it in 2002. 

    Congressional Republicans---who haven't lifted a finger to stop any of the egregious abuses of the Legal System against President Trump or any other Americans illegally being persecuted---were quick to defend the Zionist leadership with threats of consequences that they would never dream of bringing against American judges who violate any of our Rights with impunity. 

   Aside from the sheer foolishness of attacking a legal entity whom the United States doesn't even recognize, such rhetoric illustrates once again that all of this blustering is yet another cheap publicity stunt. If all of these arm-flapping Alphas in the GOP want to start talking about keeping trouble-makers out of the country, maybe they should start with foreign NGOs, lobbyists, and some of the WEF scumbags who are actually a threat to the United States. 

  This whole disgraceful episode also further illustrates that the GOP Establishment is not in control of its own Party's policies. Madison Avenue shylocks hired by vested financial interests manufacture and market the GOP's positions and promote shady politicians who'll generate publicity for their causes. 

  

   

   

  

   

   

ON PIGSKINS, SHEEPSKINS, AND A DYING CULTURE

      So this weekend, Social Media Trash Culture and the Churchian Right are engaged a major ratings and clickbait blowout because some sports figure who played in this year's Taylor Swift Bowl (or whatever they call the Super Bowl these days) made some remarks at a college commencement speech. Given the fact that most colleges and universities are basically scam operations selling degrees, expertise, and influence (at very high prices) and that our culture places little to no value on merit that supposedly comes with these commodities, one would think that we'd have higher priorities that what someone says at these fake displays---a relic of a once-great system that today only serves to create the illusion that education is really a national priority. 

    

     Harrison Butker, who made the speech, is himself a graduate of Georgia Tech, an institution heavily tied into Big Pharma. A product of the NCAA Money-Machine, another corrupt offshoot of the Academic Mafia which rakes in billions for these institutions. The athletes involved in this scam, like other graduates, typically go from four years of being celebrated and rewarded to being dumped on the streets to sink or swim once they're of no further use to the schools. Also like other graduates, only a small percentage ever go on to any kind of success in their chosen fields. 

    However, the American public would rather not think about any of that. Every year, these phony ceremonies have to have some kind of controversy or scandal around some speaker to divert attention away from seriously thinking about what a fraud and a cheat the whole system is to begin with. 

   Butker apparently said something to the effect that being a home-maker was a noble calling for women. In a culture where abortion is considered a sacred rite and murdering entire families is simply the cost of doing good business, such remarks were bound to be met with contempt. Between the Whacko Left Wing---which thinks that depopulation (i.e. genocide) is a worthy social goal and the Churchian Right---who value women and children slightly less than the the White Slave traffickers of 12th Century Turkey; one can well imagine what the tone of these online firestorms sound like. 

     Rather than descend into the gutter, let's talk about what being a homemaker actually involves. The Old Testament, with its often very succinct way of expressing profound truths describes the creation of Eve and by extension tells us about the Divine origins of complimenatrianism, which is considered on the level of obscenity in our postmodern dystopia though its practice was largely responsible for building civilization. The division of labor, where both genders worked together in the spheres for which they were best suited built societies. In fact, up until recently it was well-understood that genders become more specialized and differentiated as they advance. 

    Contrary to what Feminist revisionists and Churchian reactionaries teach, as families grew into communities, men produced and provided while women ran domestic affairs in the home. In Classical Times, women had the status of 'property' more because of their recognized value than because of any patriarchal oppression or silliness about the sins of Eve. This continued until our 'enlightened' generations believed that the Corporate State was more valuable than the family. Being a 'homemaker' had women in charge of maintaining everything relating to the household: even in large estates they managed the servants, the accounting, the logistics of supplying the goods and services for the household---it was not a drudgery or slavery as often portrayed by both its modern detractors and promoters. 

   In Ancient Rome, for example, one of the most obscure festivals was held every December exclusively for women. Little is known about this festival, since only women participated and they were sworn to secrecy. Even the name of the actual Goddess honored isn't known: she was simply referred to as the Good Goddess. Even the Caesar had to leave his own home while this event was going on and everyone from his wife to the servant-girls participated. Cicero told a story about how one of his old school-mates disguised himself as a woman to learn its secrets but was discovered and badly beaten by the celebrants. Apparently, the unenlightened Romans didn't realize that men could become women simply by identifying as one.

   With our advances in technology, women have the opportunity today to be both homemakers and to pursue interests outside of the home. The misogynists on the Left, however, don't want them in the home at all; while the misogynists on the Right don't want them out of the home for any reason. 

  While I agree with Butker's sentiments, the whole debate is really a distraction from how little our culture values women's traditional roles and how truly worthless we believe them to be. Consider that the skyrocketing rates of female infertility, gender dysphoria, suicide, and addiction among young women isn't even a topic worthy of discussion. Nor is there much concern about the fact that the US---in less than 20 years---has fallen to the bottom of developed countries in infant mortality rates or the numbers of women who have died in childbirth. 

   The reality is that our culture cares no more about women than it does for children; and this whole debate is only a smokescreen for people to pretend that they do. Access to unrestricted abortion, easy divorce laws, the social criminalization of all but homosexual sexuality, the practical forcing of women into male positions and so-called 'trans-women' into female ones---all of these are symptomatic of a deeply misogynist culture. We mouth platitudes about how we esteem women and motherhood while doing exactly the opposite. But like the Academic shows where Butker appeared; it's all about keeping up the illusion rather than facing the reality. 

THE WAGES OF EXCEPTIONALISM

     While the verminous American Media was distracting public attention with the usual daily dose of celebrity scandals and political theater, Slovakian President Robert Fico was gunned down by a Whacko Left activist. The President is in critical but stable condition after several hours of intensive surgery. The Slovakian Federal Police have stated that the shooter confessed to political motivations---he was alleged by some sources to have worked for media subsidized by Western NGOs---and shot Fico because of the President's decision to suspend arms shipments to Ukraine. 

    Slovakia won its independence in 1992 after the fall of the Iron Curtain and Fico was one of the nation's founders. Because of its strategic location, Slovakia was heavily pursued as an ally by Deep State interests. Fico, a patriot, increasingly became concerned at foreign political and economic interests imposing upon Slovakian National Sovereignty. His predictions were coming true: Slovakia eventually slid down the path of American Exceptionalism, plagued by cultural erosion, soaring crime and addiction rates, and widespread wealth inequality. Despite considerable Western interference in the election, Fico was elected to Prime Minister in 2023, a position he had held briefly twice before despite heavy foreign pressure against him. 

    Fico is hated by Western Deep State interests not only because of his opposition to sacrificing Slovakian interests for Ukraine; he has also gained popularity for his 'Euro-skepticism' and opposition to the Great Reset. Fico opposed the restrictions of the Scamdemic and one of his first official acts was open investigations into Corporate profiteering and abuses of governmental power during the so-called 'crisis.' Last week, his government rejected the Gates-backed WHO Pandemic Treaty; earlier this year, his government re-joined a cultural reform pact led by Russia and Belarus to curb Western Cultural Imperialism. Slovakian Minister of Culture Martina Simkovicova stated in January that “The innocent are being punished and that is sick, ideology should not interfere with culture. Non-governmental organizations related to LGBT  will no longer parasitize on the money from the culture department. Such practices have come to an end, we are returning to normality.”

    Fico's latest initiative was an attempt to pry foreign corporate interests out of Slovakian Media. Reporters Without Borders, itself heavily funded by shady Western NGOs, flew into a predictable rage over the proposal. These NGOs have---like their American counterparts---been fanning as much hatred, division, and violence in Slovakia as they do here, among other attempts to undermine social stability. Fico himself ominously predicted recently that "Some Slovaks are denouncing supporters of political forces they do not like as 'misguided blind folk' that they are ashamed to have as their neighbors. Politicians face obscenities in the streets. I expect this frustration to turn so intense that it could lead to the murder of one of the leading government officials," which sounds very similar to the situation that the Corporate Media has created in the United States.

   Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is visiting China, issued a joint statement with Chinese President Xi Jinping condemning the assassination attempt. The Russian Government issued a statement saying that "Fico is not afraid to speak his mind, even if it often goes against the mainstream narrative of the collective West. We condemn the heinous rhetoric of hate that has surrounded the assassination attempt in Western Media; this rhetoric has flooded a media space that is already dominated by pro-Ukrainian narratives. The West has “cultivated” a similar “rhetoric of hate” for years." Cui Heng, a scholar at China's National Institute for SCO International Exchange and Judicial Cooperation told the Chinese Media that "Such extreme actions, influenced by internal and external crises, indicates that the political and social landscape across Europe is showing signs of radicalization, with individuals on both sides of the political spectrum becoming increasingly extreme in their actions." 

   The extremist rhetoric in European Media is merely a reflection of the kind of cultural debasement that has been imported there by American Media Cartels. Contrary to popular belief, Big Media is the largest American export. The effects on societies where this cultural rot has proliferated is unmistakably damaging and nowhere moreso than its Country of Origin. 

   The Uniparty in the United States---which caused this problem in the first place by repealing laws against media concentration---is demanding various degrees of censorship against so-called hate speech defined by whichever interest group is promoting it. The real answer to the problem is not censorship or State-Controlled Media (which we have de facto because a few hundred Corporate Boards already control over 90% of its content). What we need is to reinstate sensible laws ensuring competition among media outlets again. The Free Market of Ideas would drown out the voices of extremism and dissension with truth and reason. 

   But such a return wouldn't suit the policy of the Globalist Cartels which thrive on instilling paranoia in populations whom they desire to control. Foreign Governments like the aforementioned China, Russia, and Slovakia have no choice but to embargo this dangerous propaganda from abroad and encourage the growth of domestic media outlets. This policy wouldn't work in the United States because the same vested interests promoting the Corporate Media control the governmental agencies which would be charge of regulating it. 

   Any long-term hope of actual Media reform is probably forlorn at this point. The best that we can do is expose these criminal enterprises for what they are and denounce extremism in all its forms in the few venues that we still have left to do it in. Foreign Governments maybe to protect their citizenry from outsourcing their minds to the Media Establishment, but here in the US, we have to start to taking the responsibility of thinking for ourselves and rejecting the 'narratives' more proactively. 

    

   

NONE DARE CALL IT GENOCIDE

     Much to the delight of Leftist hypocrites and their flying monkeys on the Churchian Right, the Zionists began an offensive into the southern part of the Gaza Strip this weekend. The military strategy of the Zionists seems to be to push the displaced Palestinians into the center of the region between two pincers before completing the first stage of their Final Solution to the Palestinian Problem. (Ethnic Cleansing of the West Bank will be the second stage). Though not reported in the Corporate-controlled media, Hamas has been fighting valiantly: contesting every inch of ground in spite of being greatly outnumbered and inadequately armed. They've inflicted heavy casualties on the Zionist invaders and the Civil War is now in its eighth month, despite US military experts assuring us that it would all be over by last December. 

   The Palestinian people, too, realizing that they have no future under the Techno-Fascist Israeli Regime, have resisted with determination despite being cut off from from necessities like food, water, sanitation, medicine, housing, and energy for over half a year. According to such statistics as have managed to leak out, the average Palestinian is subsisting on 245 calories per day (for those who went to public schools, that's about the equivalent of two slices of bread) and even that has been cut off since the Zionists seized control of the only humanitarian corridor on Sunday and are standing idly by while those very peace-loving Israeli citizens are looting the aid convoys.  

     

    The Democrats are somewhat divided on the issue of supporting Israel, leading to a few symbolic actions from the Biden/Harris Junta for media consumption to pose as humanitarians. The Republicans, to their extreme discredit, are almost unanimously supportive of the Regime. The vast majority of Americans probably don't even know where Palestine is and could care less.

    The Conservative-Industrial Complex and their Churchian confederates lost out in the Marketplace of Ideas defending the Zionist Regime a long time ago; so they've joined the pro-genocide Democrats in resorting to the most blatant acts of terrorizing and silencing opposition that we've seen since the Antifa and BLM riots in 2020---in fact, they've resorted to many of the same tactics. The so-called Right is digging itself into a deeper and deeper hole; since now they not only have to justify Israel, they have to find excuses for their own repressive measures. 

   To try and keep their dupes in line, the Controlled Opposition Media has been pushing what passes for an intellectual elite among their ranks to promote the new settled science that anyone who opposes genocide and ethnic cleansing are nothing but anti-Semitic racist meanies---like BLM says about anyone who questions their dogma of systemic racism.  

   Dennis Prager, one of the foremost blowhards among Zionist apologists sent out another encyclical yesterday which, even for him, was setting the bar of political discourse another degree lower. Echoing the sentiments of the GOP-sponsored DEI/Hate Speech Bill, Prager brings up the specter of the so-called Blood Libel and equates that with criticism of Israeli atrocities. 

   Prager begins his article by proving that he doesn't know (or is deliberately lying about) what the 'Blood Libel' actually is. He brings up an anecdote from Mediaeval History about some anti-Semitic rumors happening in a few backwaters of the least developed parts of Europe several centuries ago and tries to present this as a widespread practice. It's basically the same propaganda from Black Lives Matter about white guilt and nonsensical stories about sharks still following the slave-trade routes repackaged. 

   What the 'Blood Libel' actually refers to a misinterpretation of a passage in the Gospel of St. Matthew which at the trial of Jesus, Pilate offers to release Jesus in exchange for Barabbas. The crowd demands that Christ be crucified, to which Pilate symbolically washes his hands in their sight and says: "Guiltless I am of the blood of this righteous man, see to it yourselves." The crowd answered: "His blood be upon us and our children." St. Matthew related this story to show that the Jews had rejected the New Covenant; and like their forefathers did with the prophets brought Judgement upon themselves. Anti-Semites (the genuine ones) have used that passage to implicate all Jews in the judicial murder of Christ, just like racists (the real ones) tried to justify slavery by pretending that Noah's curse of Ham applied to all Africans; or that modern Zionists try and pretend that God's Covenant with Abraham applies to themselves. 

   Interpreting the Blood Libel in the way that Prager does, is obvious in its intent: for giving the truth about its history might bring the Christian Zionist cult who signs his paychecks in collusion with Hollywood Liberals under some scrutiny. He goes to make this incredible assertion:

  "For centuries, Jews had to confront the fact that all around them, throughout Europe, a vast number of people believed an enormous lie about them. Jews have to confront the same thing today. We are now living through the Second Blood Libel: the claim that the Jewish state is committing genocide. But, unlike the first Blood Libel, this libel is not the product of Christians; it is the product of Muslims and the left. The very people against whom the greatest genocide in recorded history—the Holocaust—was directed are now accused of the very same crime."

  Prager's argument about alleged discrimination of Jews sounds suspiciously similar to the WEF's 2022 position-paper on Critical Race Theory, which states: "CRT acknowledges that the legacy of slavery, segregation, and the imposition of second-class citizenship on Black Americans and other people of colour, continues to permeate the social fabric of American society...Critical race theory is a way of thinking about America's history through the lens of racism. It examines how the legacy of slavery and segregation in the US is embedded in modern-day legal systems and policies. And is the idea that racism is not a matter of individual bigotry but is systemic in America."

   His affinity with radical Left ideology aside, however; Prager's assertion that Israeli actions against the Palestinians are only a figment of our over-heated, inherently racist imaginations is truly astounding. It's much like the apologists for CRT---who try to blame the problems in the Black community on White racism---only taking the argument up to an incredibly cynical degree. The failures of the Black communities in the US are due mostly to their own leadership which scapegoats Whites for their own incompetence: but Israel's actions are a deliberate, government-organized system of plunder and murder on a scale not seen since the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia. To argue, as Prager does, that ethnic Jews could never be guilty of a crime that their forefathers historically suffered under is nonsense. History is replete with examples of oppressed peoples turning into savage oppressors once they had power: consider the French Revolution under the Jacobins or the Russian Revolution under the Bolsheviks among others.

   The rest of Prager's article is filled with historical and statistical non sequiturs all designed, as is true with most postmodern 'academics,' to appear well-informed and educated to the masses. None of what he says here has the slightest bearing on contemporary events in Palestine, so there is no point in debating any of them since they are all merely academic points and anyone who wants to challenge any of them easily can do so for himself. 

   The real problem here is that Prager's intended audience are fanatics and ideologues who want re-assurance instead of the truth. The problem isn't with the speaker so much as it is with the listeners. Unlike Prager and his kind, I wouldn't demand that his views be censored or blacklisted; but the fact that so many alleged Christian Conservatives uncritically accept what he says is disturbing. 

   It is not simply a matter of accepting Left-Wing ideology and rhetoric. Consider how few on the so-called Right actually stop to think about what the Israeli Government actually is, and what the Palestinian cause is really all about. To borrow some of the contemporary Right's own talking points, Israel's government is extremely Left-Wing, comprised of literal immigrant invaders who displaced the indigenous culture and relegated them to the status of second-class citizens. The Palestinians are fighting to regain their country and re-establish their traditions and wrest their national liberties and state sovereignty from a globalist corporate cabal. That sounds very much like a cause that traditional Americans would support: instead they side with the objectives of the Great Reset both there and in our homeland. 

   Even more disturbing is the willingness of American Christians to fall into this way of thinking. It was bad enough during the Scamdemic that so many looked the other way while churches were padlocked and ministers jailed by government edict; but to look upon the wholesale massacre of an innocent people---many of whom are our fellow-Christians---is inexcusable. It's as disgraceful as watching the Whacko Left during the last decade whooping it up at every report of an ISIS slaughter of some Christian community in Syria. American Christianity is spiritually vitiated at this point. American Conservatism may be only a shadow of its former self: but American Christianity is more like a ghost, a body with only its outward form remaining. 

    

   

   

RAGE RITUALS

     Anybody living in the Postmodern English-speaking world well understands that outrage is more or less a defining characteristic of our society. It's not that people focus reasoned or righteous anger at gross injustice; what we tend to witness in just about any community setting today is something more like a temper-tantrums or schoolyard playground fights except that people well beyond the toddler stage engage in it. Trigger Warnings are even put out as disclaimers on some news stories or opinion pieces. Even in my small town recently the library's copier was severely damaged after someone went berserk and started trashing the place.

    As surprising as it sounds in today's America, these outbursts not infrequently result in consequences, such as the case mentioned above where the outburst occasioned Malicious Mischief charges. Apparently, however, some opportunists have figured out a way to cash in on Ameroboob Anger: introducing the Rage Ritual. 

    Rage Rituals are a variation on an earlier scam from the 1970s called Primal Scream Therapy. The earlier version mostly preyed on people of higher income levels who never grew out of the rich spoiled brat stage---adjusted for inflation, it cost about $45,000 of today's dollars. The modern version is much less expensive though consumers don't get the advantage of a private setting: they get a stick and sent out to a secluded spot in the woods. 

    According to the promoters of this new trend, the overwhelming number of participants in these programs are women, whom they claim have an excess of repressed rage in our culture. Speaking for myself, I haven't especially noticed much actual repression among the fair sex; but I suppose that we must defer to the experts here and ignore the complaints about mean girls and videos of women brawling on social media as fake news.

   I suppose too that, in a culture where wearing diapers is considered a profound political statement, this kind of trend was inevitable. However, an especially troubling aspect of it is that there is a strong element of the occult involved. 

  "For years, self-described 'Spiritual Fairy Godmother' Mia Magik has led rage rituals in Scotland. She began doing them for herself and her friends, before adding them as an option to her wellness retreats...During the rage ritual, Magik guides the participants to sit with their deepest emotions, walking them through warm-ups and deep breaths. Typically, she tells them to conjure 'every person who’s ever crossed you, who’s ever hurt you, who’s ever ignored your boundaries or taken advantage of you or abused you in any way.'" 

   This is diametrically opposed to what most traditional religions teach. Could anyone imagine Jesus reacting to injustice or abuse in this way? Religious teachers taught that one overcomes Evil with Good: or to put in clinical terms, one learns firsthand how abuse and injustice actually affects people and they mature spiritually either by practicing better behavior or helping others who experience the same feelings. To put it in more mundane terms, it's part of growing up. Running around screaming, striking, and breaking things is neither spiritual, reasonable,  nor mature. The occult aspect of this kind of 'therapy' teaches one to focus on oneself and symbolically striking out in revenge. 

  Rage Rituals are a regressive form of behavior, from the clinical standpoint. As practiced, they actually reinforce the tendency to react violently under stress. Given how much these charlatans change for these sessions, I wouldn't want to be in their shoes if one of their clients gets the idea that they may have been cheated. 

  In the larger scheme of things, the rage that we constantly see in our culture is not only fanned by media and political propaganda (and both our politicians and media figures set terrible examples of behavior), it is the direct result of the decline of the family, schools, and churches: figures once associated with civilizing authority. As one social psychologist stated: "The decline of institutionalized authority in an ostensibly permissive society does not, however, lead to a 'decline of the superego' {i.e., the Conscience} in individuals. It encourages instead a harsh, punitive superego that derives most of its psychic energy in the absence of authoritative social prohibitions from the aggressive, destructive impulses within the id {i.e. primitive instincts}. Unconscious, irrational elements come to dominate its operation. As authority figures in modern society increasingly lose their credibility, the superego in individuals increasingly derives from childhood's primitive fantasies about his parents---fantasies charged with sadistic rage---rather than from internalized ego ideals formed by later experience with loved and respected models of social conduct."

   In other words, the long-standing neglect of children in our culture is starting to bear its fruits, of which both Rage Rituals and their less-organized and spontaneous eruptions are a symptom. These are social problems entirely of our own making; and we need to stop pretending that it will all go away by denying or ignoring it.