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Re: OT: Terrorist attacks in Paris 

Post#381 » by TimRobbins » Sat Nov 21, 2015 2:33 am

art_barbie wrote:Given that the Rothschilds own and control just about all of the major banks in the entire world for over the past 200 years i think they have done a pretty good job...i cant imagine what that type of power would look like in the hands of a typical human being. We'd likely all be killing each other on each contintinent and at all times. it would likely be total chaos. So, the rothschilds have done a decent job...and the video doesn't really say that. I cant imagine having that kind of power.


Can you name a single bank owned or controlled by these mythical "Rothchilds"? Please name a single bank. A you seriously an adult?
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Re: OT: Terrorist attacks in Paris 

Post#382 » by johnnyvann840 » Sat Nov 21, 2015 3:00 am

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art_barbie wrote:it must have take bin laden a decade or so to realize the Rothshcild's are jews.

By the way do you guys know that your average every day Muslim does not take kindly to paying interest to banks for loans? I believe it is agains most forms of Muslim religion. I'm not exactly 100% on this so any practicing Muslims please feel free to clarify this...but my understanding is that usury or "riba" does not conform with the principle of Islam as it is viewed as essentially a form of enslavement by the rich.

for the record I happen to agree with all Muslims on this one and its one thing for sure they got right and the rest of the world has wrong. Modern day banking enslaves us all. Usury is supposed to be outlawed and illegal yet it persists in just about every single banking institution in the world as all loans are front loaded with nearly 90% interest in those first payments. And most car dealerships are charging 5-15% points over prime anyway so it doesn't matter if they front load but they do as well.

those of you that find this thread interesting should become more informed about the practice and "money changing" and the practice of loaning out money with interest. Paying interest is a well documented sin according to Islam...watching this documentary can help you understand why and help you understand more about some of the core beliefs of islam.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtiOEpOnqtI


I knew that as an avid conspiracy theory guy, "the Jews" had pop out somewhere.

Not that this 1000 year old antisemitism requires a response,
but I'll try anyway.

I love that the name "Rothchild" keeps popping up as some great "puppet masters" who "control the world". Yet, when you look up the wealthiest people on the planet, there is nobody named "Rothchild" anywhere near the top of the list. I wonder how these people, who supposedly "control the world" have so little wealth. I thought "controlling the world" would come with far ore privileges.

Usury is forbidden in Judaism. Isalm got it from there. Unfortunately, debt is just about the oldest financial instrument ever to exist. It's been here since before the Roman ages. Debt, as a financial instrument, is deeply rooted within society and you can't just take it away since it holds far more merit than fault.

However, I do agree that there is too much debt and leverage in the system, which causes inherent instability. The solution is a lot easier and it also comes from the scriptures - have more lax bankruptcy laws which would make lenders a bit more careful.


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Re: OT: Terrorist attacks in Paris 

Post#383 » by johnnyvann840 » Sat Nov 21, 2015 3:26 am

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Did you bother waiting a moment, reflecting, and doing that one thing that the Western tradition of Skepticism (or the ancient tradition of Platonism) enjoins all of us to do: doubt yourself? Or the thing that the traditions of both natural and social sciences enjoin us to ask: what if I were wrong? How would I know? What then?

Or did you just cursorily see that you'd been challenged, and then mount all of the ready-made defenses that you've held since whenever your mind first closed? I don't see the first bit of evidence that you actually read what I wrote, looked at the other YouTube comments, and clicked on the "Let Me Google That For You" link.

If you had, you'd see that you're in the company of white supremacists, neo-Nazis, and tin hat conspiracy theorists. And you would have taken at least a moment or two to reflect: what does that say about me? What does that say about my ready-made responses and catch-all beliefs? What if I (and all of those nutbags) were wrong?

But you didn't. You just plunged into a scripted defense. I'd like to know which class at Northwestern taught you that garbage. I'd like to know which professors taught you that thinking process, that evidentiary tradition. I know a fair number of them. Would be oh so curious to know where you allegedly got it. Please elaborate.

Before you suggest, with incredible arrogance, that I watch the full 3.5 hours of that 20 year old conspiracy theorist garbage before I can "begin to understand it," notwithstanding my own 25 years in higher education studying pretty much the exact same things-- 3.5 hours vs. 25 years-- please elaborate.


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Re: OT: Terrorist attacks in Paris 

Post#384 » by art_barbie » Sat Nov 21, 2015 5:51 am

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art_barbie wrote:Given that the Rothschilds own and control just about all of the major banks in the entire world for over the past 200 years i think they have done a pretty good job...i cant imagine what that type of power would look like in the hands of a typical human being. We'd likely all be killing each other on each contintinent and at all times. it would likely be total chaos. So, the rothschilds have done a decent job...and the video doesn't really say that. I cant imagine having that kind of power.


Can you name a single bank owned or controlled by these mythical "Rothchilds"? Please name a single bank. A you seriously an adult?


rothschilds own rueters and the AP press and are the wealthiest and most powerful people in the world and thye have been covering up their wealth and influence for the past 100 year...but they dont own wiki so start here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rothschild_family
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Re: OT: Terrorist attacks in Paris 

Post#385 » by TimRobbins » Sat Nov 21, 2015 9:43 am

art_barbie wrote:rothschilds own rueters and the AP press and are the wealthiest and most powerful people in the world and thye have been covering up their wealth and influence for the past 100 year...but they dont own wiki so start here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rothschild_family


So you're talking about people who were big in the 19th century. Now I get it. Antisemitic conspiracy theories were indeed big in the 19th century.

During the 19th century, when it was at its height, the Rothschild family is believed by some to have possessed the largest private fortune in the world, as well as the largest private fortune in modern world history. The family's wealth is believed to have subsequently declined, as it was divided amongst hundreds of descendants.Today, Rothschild businesses are far less well known than they were throughout the 19th century, although they encompass a diverse range of fields, including financial services, real estate, mining, energy, mixed farming, wine and charities.


Here's a list of the biggest banks on the world - http://www.accuity.com/useful-links/bank-rankings/

Please name a single bank on that list that in owned by the "Rothchilds". I can't believe an adult person wouldn't see how ridiculous your conspiracy theory sounds.

Thomson Reuters is owned by the Thomson family: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomson_Reuters

AP isn't "owned" by anybody - it's "owned" by 1,700 news outlets: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associated_Press

Aren't you just a little but embarrassed posting these conspiracy theories that a 5 year old would not even believe? Couldn't you have googled this on your own and see it was false?
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Re: OT: Terrorist attacks in Paris 

Post#386 » by Ben » Sat Nov 21, 2015 6:53 pm

A person's academic/ intellectual bona fides are challenged, and the totality of the person's response is to cite Wikipedia. Priceless.

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Re: OT: Terrorist attacks in Paris 

Post#387 » by fleet » Sat Nov 21, 2015 8:22 pm

Ben wrote:A person's academic/ intellectual bona fides are challenged, and the totality of the person's response is to cite Wikipedia. Priceless.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuBEP6nfBl8[/youtube]

If it helps to relatively bolster anybody's credibility, I don't even use Wikipedia to explain my Id.

Other than the way I just looked up Id on Wikipedia in order to......
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OT: Terrorist attacks in Paris 

Post#388 » by DarthDiggler69 » Sat Nov 21, 2015 10:28 pm

Too many conspiracy theories here, this is turning into youtube lol
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Post#389 » by art_barbie » Sun Nov 22, 2015 1:01 am

Ben wrote:A person's academic/ intellectual bona fides are challenged, and the totality of the person's response is to cite Wikipedia. Priceless.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuBEP6nfBl8[/youtube]


cool...essentially 3 posts in a row from a "senior mod," no less, directly about me, personally. basically attacking my intelligence and education. Cool! Thanks bro. I see where this is is going. You clearly are not interested in the actual topic being discussed and went almost directly to personal attacks which of course are cheered on by the peanut gallery of 3. Which is why i didn't even want to get involved in this thread in the first place until it was 15 pages in...enen then i threw out some vague glittering gernalities but something said just stay away because no one wants to have a real conversation...no one wants to understand the other side...people just prefer the lines in the sand and to defend them basically until death...this was just about a guaranteed conclusion to any thread about foreign policy and the things that govern/influence it. And nation building and nation financing very much dictates the foreign policy of those nations. But whatever. I really didn't join this thread to change anyone's mind because i learned a long time ago what a waste of time that is. The information i put out there is for anyone who wants to follow that wormhole and if you dont so be. I accept and respect your belief system as what works for you.

On an aside, let me state for the third time in this thread that I'm not interested in any conspiracies. Nor am I condemning the rothschilds nor Jews in any way shape or form. In my opinion the rothshchild financial influence has been very responsible save maybe nathan rothchild who single handedly took over the bank of england during the napoleoinic wars under dubious manipulations. But, if some other family had that type of control and influence I doubt the world in general would be as peaceful or as harmonious as it is in many places on earth. The world still has some areas of conflict for sure...Silicon and diamonds in africa (which we dont hear much about these days) And Oil in the middle east. Those areas essentially still have an immense amount of consumable wealth in the land itself...predictably the areas are unstable. When it was discovered that there was gold abundant in the americas an immense amount of conflict ensued until the strong prevailed and the gold was gone. The oil in the middle east is no different than the gold of the americas, the silicon of africa...religion and religious identity was/is used all 3 times as a device to initial fight over then to control and subdue the masses once new powers took over and pillage the land of its natural recources. Religion remains a powerful tool to manipulate especially the less or barely uneducated...they will literally die for/over it...and defend their particular religion going to catastrphic lengths. This is also predictable. Wealthy and intelligent leaders have always and will continue to manipulate those that are moved by such.

Connecting the dots of all the foreign policy of all the monarchs, republics, and dictatorships around the globe over the past 200-300 years has directly led to basically all of the current state of affairs. And perhaps even going back to foreign policy of the previous 1000 years...Connecting all of these dots is nearly impossible to prove...all we can do is continuously attempt to connect the dots on who has benefitted?? Who has amassed these massive amounts of wealth? Who has benefitted the most from various wars, conflicts, gold rush's, oil grabs, silicon grabs.

Everyone needs financing. Everyone.

In 2007-2008 our banking system collapsed. Money was once again printed out of thin air to save it which made credit markets all but completely freeze up until 2013. In the link below you will see that Sir EL Rothschild sold his banking interrest in 2006...hmmm... a year before the banking markets began to take a slide and only a year prior to complete worldwide meltdown. Now you hadn't heard much from a Rothschild at all in nearly 20-30 years prior to the meltdown...but suddenly at the time of the collapse...there he was on his rothschild/rockefeller controlled media outlet NBC with this. Take note how he invested in Gold, oil and Government Bonds) in 2006 and 2007 leading up to the financial crisis.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Fw1RMKWypo

Now you have to understand that when this man talks...when this man says something its a warning, its a promise, and its the truth so long as he wants it to be YOUR truth. If you paid attention to the financial markets at all...everything this man said, either happened or was going to happen(already happened) or needed to happen then did happen. When he says "he's not confident in the economy" and has "converted his wealth to Gold" that means his family's vast wealth is not available for you to borrow...not you...not home depot, not de beers, not your massive 401K pension fund (which many went under from 08-2011), and not even the government of the United States unless of course he's buying their bonds. Rothschild wealth is estimated at 200-500 trillion.

In other words...rothschilds essentially predicted and somewhat created this global meltdown as they took their own massive wealth out of the credit markets and turned it into the more stable Gold, oil, and bonds because they new and somewhat created the instability of what would follow in 2007-2008. It wasn't the first time...the Rothschild controlled banks shut down the credit markets in 1929 as well. So it should be interesting that the price of Gold was about $400 per ounce in 2006 and $1800 an ounce in 2013. Rothschild quintupled their money in this 4 year period where the entire world went into a huge financial depresson. It should be interesting that rothschilds invested their massive wealth out of the financial markets and to gold in 2006 ahead of the financial meltdown. It should be further interesting that the credit markets essentially opened back up in somewhat initially in 2012-2013 and now wide open in 2014 and 2015...because Rothschild money had become abundant again in the credit markets as they likely liquidated their gold holdings and gold began to slide back down to the $1000 per ounce it is today.

And the rothschild have layers and layers and layers upon more and more layers of cloak around them...you only mostly know about them what they want you to know. Corporate holdings on top of corporate holding on top of trusts, on top of corporate holding so you actually cant follow the money. That's by design. You cant find out who has controlling interest in any one bank any more and in the last 10-20 years most banks have gone so corporate that a board of directors now lies in in power and the rothschild still sat on top of these boards for many years up until the last 10-20 years. And its not about them anyway...it about money. Money is always at the end of all these trails...all conflict...all wars...they are all financed by private banks...and those banks decide who gets financed and how much often determines the victor. The same bank often financing both sides of a conflict or war.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/who-owns-the-federal-reserve/10489

there were "about 12," now about 3-4 private big wall street banks which "own 100% of the stock of the federal reserve." So private banks own the federal reserve...i'm sure all the "financial people" on this website know that but most people do not. The federal reserve is the bank of the united states. It is believed that the rothschild, along with JP Morgan, Rockefller, and mellon owned 100% of the original Federal Reserve with Rothschils owning the lions share. Rothschild were the only ones around who even had that kind of money back then so this is obvious. Noways, its almost impossible to directly trace because they dont list these things on the internet. Which is why i laugh and didn't respond to Tim's challenge. You cant find who owns what anymore...decades and decades of transfers and takeovers with all of the mellons, Rothschilds, Rockefellers, and Morgans all trying to hide their wealth as they were rothschilds agents. Only new money shows up on forbes list of billionaires...never old money. For example...we can trace BoA beause it wasn't rothschild money early on. If you search "who owns a bank" you will find a board of directors now sitting a top of each of these private banks, and private equity funds owning the largest parts. And all of these bank have split up so much its impossible to know where it all is going and where it all came from. Bank of NY(mellon) For example. The Mellon bank and family was consumed by citigroup in the past decade. Mellon bank, among other things, owned newsweek, and gulf oil which consumed standard oil(exxon) which is Chevron today, which once merged with Texaco is the third largest oil company in the entire world and the 16th largest of any company. It all started out as Rockefeller owned standard oil which was financed and majority owned via Rosthchild(financing) at its inception.


And again this is not a condemnation of the rothschilds (or jews at all as i have stated now for the 4th time). In fact I quite marvel at the work they've done with other financial institutions over the past 200 years. Ive tried to understand their motivations. Its amazing how efficient they were/are at influencing monarchs and republics via funding.


In the end, these are painstaking dots to connect and I'm not going to waste anymore time bantering back and forth about these things with 2 guys who genuinely are not interested in the topic on the internet that make a single click and think they solved the world's answers to all its problem with a single quote from a single page on the internet.

Anyway I'm just about done here on this sidetrack of the history of banking and modern banking and how it affects foreign policy of those it finances. i've put enough out there for those that are interested can click around for weeks on end...this was a personal research topic of mine for a book i'm writing and another book I helped edit which was by the way...was written by none other than a rothschild and should be published in the next year or so. So there's that.
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Re: OT: Terrorist attacks in Paris 

Post#390 » by Ben » Sun Nov 22, 2015 2:02 am

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Post#392 » by EastBayFJ » Mon Nov 23, 2015 4:48 am

Anyway ....all the conspiracy hoo haa aside there is really nothing new in any of this .

Religion has been used since the dawn of time to achieve a re-alignment of order or the maintenance of it .

Sufferance and deprivation in this life and reward in the next.

And not just the Islamic faith .....all organised religion over the passage of time.

Yes.....at the core of a movement such as ISIS are the fanatics. But increasingly , the perpetrators of the events are those that are manipulated by fanatics who respond to a level of importance to a purpose that they are sold.

And it's becoming increasingly easy to sell to those that don't see purpose , fulfilment or hope in what "Western Economy" offers

Wood's article nails it ( Thanks Ben ) when he offers that The Fascist offers death , danger ( and presumably a glory in a purpose)

And he references Hitler and 1930's Germany that was on the bones of its ass after the humiliation of World War 1 and the Treaty of Versailles as an apt analogy as to the appeal of ISIS now.

The real issue that no one really talks about in an effort to understand as to how and why something such as this gets energised at the coal face , beyond the obvious attraction to fanatics and/or psychopaths , is the underlying appeal to an increasing base of social and economic deprivation in Western Economy that has been building over the last 40 or so years and subtle changes in value systems that had traditionally underpinned Western Economy - admittedly across a small disaffiliated component.

This is where the growth energy in movements such as this (over time) come from , and ultimately why , regimes that have been living high off the hog by too few ......fall.

This is not a Nation issue ....it's absolutely a wider ideology that will , and is , impacting and threatening all in " Western Economy" that largely has grown off the Judeo -Christian worth ethic , and over a timespan of 100 to 200 years , has gradually let Markets and enabling Government gain greater traction over the Church / Monarch state

Therefore as Wood asserts to ISIS's motivations ......the inference could fairly be formed that they are perhaps "the reckoning" that Western Economy is faced with , if , the power elite within Western Economy aren't too far removed from the traditional spiritual base of Judeo - Christianity to still believe in the power ( and inevitability ) of a reckoning
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Re: OT: Terrorist attacks in Paris 

Post#393 » by Dieselbound&Down » Wed Nov 25, 2015 5:18 pm

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art_barbie wrote:you guys are wasting your time with frivelous banter in this thread. terrorism is not about religion. its not about a way of life. Its not about extinguishing freedom.

Its about money. Oil and therefore money. ISIS is making about 50 million per month "illegally" selling crude oil.

oil from there own home lands...lands that the western world has carved up for its own purposes which have solely been about pillaging the land of all its oil for profit.

Now we can debate who theoretically actually owns lands, or owns water, or owns air rights etc all we want...and its a complex debate.

But the guise of religion in this thread and in the world in general is just folly to bury the lead...just as religion has always been folly to bury the lead.

open your eyes. Follow the money. then follow the oil. Then follow the money back to the oil.


Whenever someone has a neat explanation that purports always to explain any number of complex, interrelated yet also distinct phenomena, be wary. Be very wary. It's fun to have a simple key that gives you a way always to be right when everyone else is being wrong, but fun doesn't = right.

I don't know whether this article by Graeme Wood (from The Atlantic) has been posted here, but if it hasn't, have a look. It'll have to be more than a look, actually, b/c the essay is pretty long. Very informative perspective.

Spoiler alert: it's not just about money.


That is a pretty good article. There was a follow up piece done where they interviewed one of the scholars most quoted in the Atlantic piece. That is found http://thinkprogress.org/world/2015/02/20/3625446/atlantic-left-isis-conversation-bernard-haykel/. The quotes and conclusions were a little skewed or not fully formed in the Atlantic piece. Pretty good read for those interested.
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Re: OT: Terrorist attacks in Paris 

Post#394 » by musiqsoulchild » Wed Nov 25, 2015 7:35 pm

Dieselbound&Down wrote:
Ben wrote:
art_barbie wrote:you guys are wasting your time with frivelous banter in this thread. terrorism is not about religion. its not about a way of life. Its not about extinguishing freedom.

Its about money. Oil and therefore money. ISIS is making about 50 million per month "illegally" selling crude oil.

oil from there own home lands...lands that the western world has carved up for its own purposes which have solely been about pillaging the land of all its oil for profit.

Now we can debate who theoretically actually owns lands, or owns water, or owns air rights etc all we want...and its a complex debate.

But the guise of religion in this thread and in the world in general is just folly to bury the lead...just as religion has always been folly to bury the lead.

open your eyes. Follow the money. then follow the oil. Then follow the money back to the oil.


Whenever someone has a neat explanation that purports always to explain any number of complex, interrelated yet also distinct phenomena, be wary. Be very wary. It's fun to have a simple key that gives you a way always to be right when everyone else is being wrong, but fun doesn't = right.

I don't know whether this article by Graeme Wood (from The Atlantic) has been posted here, but if it hasn't, have a look. It'll have to be more than a look, actually, b/c the essay is pretty long. Very informative perspective.

Spoiler alert: it's not just about money.


That is a pretty good article. There was a follow up piece done where they interviewed one of the scholars most quoted in the Atlantic piece. That is found http://thinkprogress.org/world/2015/02/20/3625446/atlantic-left-isis-conversation-bernard-haykel/. The quotes and conclusions were a little skewed or not fully formed in the Atlantic piece. Pretty good read for those interested.


Brilliant find, DDD.

Thank you - that was illuminating.
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Re: OT: Terrorist attacks in Paris 

Post#395 » by art_barbie » Thu Nov 26, 2015 2:57 am

musiqsoulchild wrote:
Dieselbound&Down wrote:
Ben wrote:
Whenever someone has a neat explanation that purports always to explain any number of complex, interrelated yet also distinct phenomena, be wary. Be very wary. It's fun to have a simple key that gives you a way always to be right when everyone else is being wrong, but fun doesn't = right.

I don't know whether this article by Graeme Wood (from The Atlantic) has been posted here, but if it hasn't, have a look. It'll have to be more than a look, actually, b/c the essay is pretty long. Very informative perspective.

Spoiler alert: it's not just about money.


That is a pretty good article. There was a follow up piece done where they interviewed one of the scholars most quoted in the Atlantic piece. That is found http://thinkprogress.org/world/2015/02/20/3625446/atlantic-left-isis-conversation-bernard-haykel/. The quotes and conclusions were a little skewed or not fully formed in the Atlantic piece. Pretty good read for those interested.


Brilliant find, DDD.

Thank you - that was illuminating.

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Re: OT: Terrorist attacks in Paris 

Post#396 » by Ben » Thu Nov 26, 2015 3:02 am

Dieselbound&Down wrote:
That is a pretty good article. There was a follow up piece done where they interviewed one of the scholars most quoted in the Atlantic piece. That is found http://thinkprogress.org/world/2015/02/20/3625446/atlantic-left-isis-conversation-bernard-haykel/. The quotes and conclusions were a little skewed or not fully formed in the Atlantic piece. Pretty good read for those interested.


As musiq wrote, that's a cool follow-up article. Reporters, even good ones, all too often have to fit complex quotes into a unified narrative in order to make a piece work most cohesively. But the truth is always a bit messier. It's about religion, it's about Islam, it's about non-mainstream interpretations of Islam, it's about power, it's about pride... many things. No simple, single explanation. Thanks for passing that along.
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Re: OT: Terrorist attacks in Paris 

Post#397 » by fleet » Thu Nov 26, 2015 3:22 am

What do we use? We have "American pride and tradition". And yes, some of it is our sense that we are the good ones ordained by God to keep the world safe. We too are tribal. We have the Red White and Blue, which covers all of it. Which we use to underpin all our territorial ambitions.

What can they use? They don't have countries and national pride so much, they have their own tribes, organized by religion. Which they use to underpin all their territorial ambitions. Religion and nationalistic pride are just tools to rationalize territorial ambitions. And God smiles on you while you do. But it's not about God. Its about human nature to keep power. Religion is how it is rationalized, and tribalism is how it is organized. They don't seem motivated by religion to take over the world. I think it's testosterone.
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OT: Terrorist attacks in Paris 

Post#398 » by DarthDiggler69 » Thu Nov 26, 2015 4:54 am

Some keep saying ISIS isn't about religion (its a political system actually), you are obviously looking at them from a Judea-Christian point of view, Islam is a different breed claiming its the same. I keep saying read the Qur'an (commands from Allah) and Hadith's(life of Mohammed an example how they should live) everything ISIS does is there word-for-word in all kinds of translations and interpretations.

Main problem is our leaders and media keep dancing around the problem for political correctness but its actually protecting them and a reason why terrorists are spawning like roaches. Unstable countries just bring them out but the Jihadists are always there waiting
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Post#399 » by art_barbie » Thu Nov 26, 2015 4:55 am

[quote="EastBayFJ"]Anyway ....all the conspiracy hoo haa aside there is really nothing new in any of this .

Religion has been used since the dawn of time to achieve a re-alignment of order or the maintenance of it .

Sufferance and deprivation in this life and reward in the next.

And not just the Islamic faith .....all organised religion over the passage of time.

Yes.....at the core of a movement such as ISIS are the fanatics. But increasingly , the perpetrators of the events are those that are manipulated by fanatics who respond to a level of importance to a purpose that they are sold.


What you just described is indeed a so called "conspiracy." Using religion as a tool to subdue the masses. As a tool to motivate. To create an "identity" or ideolgy to fight a war over.

But people have to be truly unintelligent and grossly misled(under eduacated) through a well funded propaganda campaign to really go to actual war against people just because their religion is different than yours. Think about that...But the human race has been at it for the past 2000 years. The dumb and uneducated masses(slave really) have been fighting wars for the elite and ruling class only to remain the same slave or a different slave to a new master. All of us. this is our history. The reality is that the war waged in the middle east is really about oil and not about religion. Wealthy and elite families are trying to protect their wealth in the land(oil). And upatarts are trying to take back control of the region so they can eventually take back control of the oil in the region. And using Religion as the basis for war to make it more palatable to the stupid masses to follow and fight over. They cant make it about money and oil because the new master once again is not going to give up the oil...the new elite class will simply keep th eprofits and continue to enslave the masses...but will likley not do a very good job of it and just sell the newly formed oil companyt anyway...right back to the reigning elite class. So in the end this is nothing more than a smash and grab job.

Where the elite once had to "pay for protection of their wealth, they have created and use UN and Nato forces to now protect their international wealth. As they discovered that paying the US and Brittain like they did in WW2 was far too expensive. Think about this...the US was a poor nation prior to ww1 and only slightly wealthier in 1937...we had just gone through the greatest economic down turn ever from 1929-1936. Yet in 1937 we built fort Knox which was to eventually hold close to 70%-80% of the worlds gold reserves. And our entire money system is still based on Gold. The origin of paper money was nothing more than a reciept for Gold.

Understand and appreciate that 90% of the world is just not that smart. At all. Let's call most of them the B and C student. 20-30% of that 90% is nothing more than a D or F students or drop outs, entirely uneducated altogether. They are easily manipulated and also very emotional. Even the elite and intelligent only make up 2-5% of any population can be easily manipulated or distracted by money or some other form distraction be it porn, sports, materialism in general or just the burden of making family ends meet regardless of how "large" one lives.

When you hear that 1% of the world owns 90% of the wealth in the entire world...its not a joke. They do...and in fact it is estimated that it is more like .00001% own 85% of the entire world's wealth...which is really scary...the local Doctor, Bar owner and farmer dont own much. It's uber uber uber elite wealthy that mostly dont show up on any forbes list anywhere that have most of the wealth. They want to keep their wealth. And they want to keep it that way. They bought and paid for a Tax code that allows them to shelter money in offshore accounts and reduces capital gains. How on earth can a trillion dollar corporation get away with bringing in 100-500 billion in profit and pay only 20%-30% (or less) of that in taxes. yet some family of 6 down the street brings in 100K and we tax them at 35-40%?? With no write offs? His gas to work and his phone he uses isn't a write off?? But if the same father was incorporated and employed as an independent contractor he would have at least 20-30% in write off that would be taxed and then eventually find himself in a more favorable 27-33% tax bracket(at most) on the same 100K in revenue? Why do we protect the elite's money in taxes? Cuz everyone knows we do. Its common knoweledge even amongst the stupid masses yet the stupid masses just cant really comprehend the extent of which the elite class has their money protected.

Well the exact same thing occurs when the elite's oil interest is compromised. Or their diamond mines in africa. the elite quickly find ways to manipulate any new source of income or natural resourse. But it can never be said that we are going to war in syria/iraq to protect rockefeller/mellon owned oil fields. Or Brittish Monarch owned oil fields. So we get sold on a BS bill of goods about how this is about an idealogy..."war on terror"/ "iraqi freedom" yada yada yada.

The goal of the elite that rule the world has been the creation of a New World Order for over 150 years. One centralized government. They began to get their wish in 1919 with the creation of the failed league of Nations which became the united nations in 1946 at the close of WW2. And Nato in 1949. Nato is essentially a war mongering cult. Their stated goal is to agree to come to a collective defense and to defend each other against outside attack...basically an "i got your back" group through think or thin and right or wrong. Nato and the UN almost seldom right injustices. Instead they are always protecting a privatized asset. They are protecting the wealthy elite's assets. Every single time. From diamond fields and mines and then silicon mines in afica...it is estimated that over 100 million africans have been killed. To say nothing of the poverty in africa and and india that has also taken about 100 million more lives since the UN and Nato inception...where was the out rage? Where was the war on poverty? But maybe 2000-3000 people world have been killed by terrorists since 1946 and we have a "war on terror." its a joke. US sponsored dictators like Sadaam Husein who has suppressed and killed an estimated 10 million of his own people while "subduing" his local masses so that elite western oil interests remained protected. sadaam was well compensated by western oil elitists which distracted him for a time. Once Sadaam began to get wise and tried to position Iraq to take back iraqi oil fields, a predictable war waged against him and his people with a made up notion of harboring weapons of mass destruction and terrorists both of which was a complete falsehood.

Wake up people. They are after everything. They are buying everything and selling it back to us to consume. All in the name of capitalism. They own most of the media, just about everyone of your politicians and they frame the discussions and the arguments both for and against war which almost always a result of compromising their wealth.

Right now the super elite class' wealth is so massive(estimated at 500-1,000 trillion), the only way to re-circulate it is to re-introduce the inheritance tax and (especially) including the taxation of trusts in general (including non for profit trusts) but also foundations (like the bill and melinda gates foundation). Trusts and foundations must be taxed when passed down from generation to generation with no loop holes. Or just passed on(gifted) in general. The Minimal tax should be 50% on estates, trusts, or foundations including and private or corporate holdings greater than $2,000,000 or more. Any inheritance less than $1,000,000 where 99% of us fall should not be taxed. They are not stupid so instead they will simply restructure and merge corporation with corporation end sell these for pennies on the dollar to the next generation so an elaborate and nuanced tax system must be put in place. Or else we will be at the whim of these tyrants for the rest of eternity and who ever tries to fight them will be deemed the next evil doer. This is not a conspiracy.

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Re: OT: Terrorist attacks in Paris 

Post#400 » by art_barbie » Thu Nov 26, 2015 5:35 am

fleet wrote:What do we use? We have "American pride and tradition". And yes, some of it is our sense that we are the good ones ordained by God to keep the world safe. We too are tribal. We have the Red White and Blue, which covers all of it. Which we use to underpin all our territorial ambitions.

What can they use? They don't have countries and national pride so much, they have their own tribes, organized by religion. Which they use to underpin all their territorial ambitions. Religion and nationalistic pride are just tools to rationalize territorial ambitions. And God smiles on you while you do. But it's not about God. Its about human nature to keep power. Religion is how it is rationalized, and tribalism is how it is organized. They don't seem motivated by religion to take over the world. I think it's testosterone.


yep...at the top...its not going to end up being about religion. at all. to take over the world as you say. it will be about testosterone. The desire to become more powerful(richer) is innate in humankind, espeicially men that dont get laid enough as the more handsome guy down the street. So man uses wealth, then power instead of cunning and good looks. the way to that power is through the oil fields...which is clearly mentioned in the second article. ISIS is also "employing" men in the region that otherwise have no prospects. And that 50-60 million per month ISIS is already profiting from their control of a few oil fields is what is paying these men...unless also "bankrolled" by other more sinister means such as other wealthy arabs in the region interested in creating and keeping the chaos so that they can eventually control more of the oil themselves.

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