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Jul 30, 2011

Mahler's "Democracy" Bombshell

 

From: James Damon <jamesmdamon@yahoo.com>

Date: Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 11:02 PM
Subject: Mahler's "Democracy" Bombshell
To: Jamesmdamon@yahoo.com



Horst Mahler „Splitterbomben"
Horst Mahler's "Bombshells"
Nr. 001/05: Demokratie und einiges mehr
No. 1/05: Democracy and Some Other Things

Translated by J M Damon

The original is posted on several sites including
<www.adelaideinstitute.org/Dissenters1/Mahler/splitterbomben.htm>

The increasing political repression in Germany, combined with that country's insistence on human rights in China and elsewhere, has renewed interest in the case of Horst Mahler.
Following is a translation of one of his revelatory articles called "Bombshells" that moved the "Federal Republic" to impose a prison sentence of 13 years on the 74 year old dissident attorney.

"BOMBSHELL" 001/05

The greatest success of the Reich's enemies lies in their having so disoriented and deranged the Germans with their satanic brainwashing (called "UMERZIEHUNG" OR "re-education - also known as "de-education"), that they are completely incapable of defending themselves.
The Germans have reached the point where they believe their enemies' most fantastical and culturally devastating lies.
They perceive their greatest virtue, loyalty to Volk and Fatherland, as depraved fatuousness.
In short, they see themselves through the eyes of their worst enemies.

And yet, nobody ever asked the Germans if they wanted to be "liberated from National Socialism and militarism."
They did, after all, remain loyal to Adolf Hitler to the bitter end.
Has any nation in modern times exhibited a greater willingness for sacrifice or struggled more valiantly against "liberation" – fought to the last cartridge -- than the German Reich?

Was it Count Coudenhove-Kalergi who in 1925 expressed the essence of democracy in the following words?
[Footnote 1]
"Nowadays, Democracy is nothing more than a facade for plutocracy.
Because the nations no longer tolerate naked plutocracy, their masters allow them nominal power, while retaining factual power in the hands of the plutocrats.
In republican as well as monarchical democracies the statesmen are but puppets and the capitalists are their string-pullers.
The capitalists dictate national policy guidelines and control the electorate by manufacturing public opinion, controlling the ministers through their financial and social connections." (ADEL, p. 31)

Pope Benedict XVI expressed similar views while he was still Cardinal Ratzinger.
He wrote the following in 1988:
"The conviction that democracy is not the best form of freedom is common and growing; the Marxist critique cannot simply be ignored.
How free are elections, really?
To what extent do a few power wielders manipulate public opinion through advertising, which is capital?
Isn't there an oligarchy that decides what is "modern" and "progressive" and what the citizens are supposed to think?
The cruelty of this oligarchy, including its willingness to carry out public executions, is sufficiently known.
Whoever stands in its way is 'an enemy of Freedom' since he is 'hindering the free expression of opinion.'
And what about the 'expression of the people's will' in the committees of 'democratic representation?'
Who can still believe that the common good is the determining factor for the oligarchy?
Who can still have doubts about the power of the interests whose dirty hands grow ever more obvious?
And furthermore: is the system of majority vs. minority really a 'free' system?
Aren't the myriad interest groups more powerful than official political representation?
In this confusion of powers, the problem of ungovernability comes ever more ominously to the surface.
The mutual, opposing determination to have one's way is blocking the freedom of all."
(FOOTNOTE 2)

For additional clarification we should also consider
Noam Chomsky's analysis of the kind of government the power elite calls "Democracy" in order to mislead simple souls.
In the following analysis, Noam Chomsky clarifies the true nature of contemporary "Democracy."
At the beginning of the Third Millennium he wrote:
"Let us examine the teachings that are said to form the basis for modern forms of political democracy.
These are to be found in an important handbook of the Public Relations industry bearing the descriptive title 'Propaganda.'
Its author, Edward Bernays, a nephew of Sigmund Freud, contributed greatly to the development of wartime propaganda and went on to become a leading personality in the field of commercial propaganda or advertising.
{Through subliminal transference of the drive for sex and status to cigarette smoking, he caused millions of cancer deaths.}
[Footnote 3]
At the very beginning Bernays remarks: 'The deliberate and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society.
To carry out this essential task the intelligent minorities must make use of propaganda continuously and systematically, because they alone understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses and can pull the wires that control the public mind.
Therefore our society has consented to permit free competition for organization by leadership and propaganda, another case of consent without consent.
Propaganda provides the leadership with a mechanism to mold the mind of the masses so that they will throw their newly gained strength in the desired direction.
The leadership can regiment the public mind every bit as much as an army regiments the bodies of its soldiers.
This process of engineering consent is the very essence of the democratic process.
Bernays wrote that the 'Consensus for Organization' belongs to the 'essence of the democratic process' shortly before he was honored by the American Psychological Association for his contributions, in 1949."
[Footnote 4]; also online at <www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Chomsky/ConsentPOP_Chom.html?]

With few words and unsurpassed precision, the PROTOCOLS OF THE ELDERS OF ZION have reduced universal sufferage, Democracy's "holiest of holies," to its essence:
"In order to achieve this goal [world Jewish domination], we must introduce universal suffrage beforehand, without distinctions of class and wealth.
Then the masses of people will decide everything; and since it [universal suffrage] is controlled by us [through the media: HM] we will achieve through it the absolute majority, which we could never achieve if only the educated and possessing classes had the vote."
[Footnote 5]

In examining the world situation since the Jews invented universal suffrage we note that results everywhere have closely followed the predictions contained in the Protocols.
The world does not realize the significance of the Zionist Press in establishing the present tyranny of deception!
In the 20th Century the Christian churches were deprived of their role as mentors of Western conscientiousness.
They were deposed by Mass Media, the principal power of modern times.
In their persistent and secretive campaign of conquest the plutocrats have taken over the media, with the result that today they determine the Weltanschauung of the West.
Egotism now provides the central perspective.
 God and the Commonwealth have been displaced, and truth has been replaced by profitability.
Our cunning secret rulers have discovered that nearly everyone can be made to believe almost anything if the rulers suggest that "everyone believes it."
The result is that most people believe whatever benefits the plutocrats, since the plutocrats constantly suggest that everyone believes that whatever is good for the plutocrats is good for all mankind!
This technology of Consciousness Control provides the basis for the tyranny of terror that supports the Great Deception.
Under this tyranny there are two deadly sins: doubting the "Value of Freedom" and questioning "Holocaust."

In order to protect themselves from empirical truth, the plutocrats avail themselves of verbal cudgels such as "conspiracy theorist," "anti Semite," "self-hater" (in case the doubter is Jewish), "racists," "Nazi,"  "Holocaust Denier" etc. which are calculated to crush the will of the independent thinker.
The Enlightenment principle that ideas should be evaluated on the basis of whether they are true or false, supported by empirical evidence, has apparently been forgotten.
The interest of the plutocrats has become the standard for evaluating every intellectual opinion and spiritual consideration.
Under cover of the euphemism "re-education," a totalitarian thought police has been imposed on Germany.
It has no counterpart in all history.
(Footnote 6)

In the so-called "Federal Republic of Germany" there is no such thing as independent journalism.
There are no independent foundations dedicated to researching contemporary history, no independent courts capable of conducting debate on the subject of the German Reich with the object of establishing historical truth.
There are no independent publishers of lexicons, no schoolbooks oriented around historical fact, no freedom of expression, and no free and independent political parties.

The intellectual enslavement of Germany is unmistakable in Section 130 of the Penal Code.
Section 130 is strongly reminiscent of the repressive laws of National Socialism, and the position of the "courts" that apply it against citizens of the Reich is clearly precarious.
In the courtrooms of the Federal Republic of Germany-OMF, empirical truth is clearly suppressed by the official lies of our enemies.
[OMF = "Organizational Form of a Modality of Foreign Rule," the descriptive term for the occupation government of Germany that was created by Prof. Carlo Schmidt, the author of the Federal Republic's Basic Law, in order to avoid the term "puppet government"].

Despite everything, let us be of good cheer.
We have no reason to doubt that the truth will ultimately prevail - for the simple reason that it exists and is accessible to those who seek it.
Lies cannot prevail once the truth is known!

30 August 2005

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FOOTNOTES

 [1] Coudenhove-Kalergi, son of the Austrian ambassador in Japan and his Japanese wife, was a visionary.
He developed the idea of a united "Pan Europe" and proposed that Europe unite in a political and economic association.
In 1924 he founded the Paneuropean Union, the oldest European unification movement.
Its membership included Albert Einstein, Thomas Mann and Konrad Adenauer.
Thus Count Coudenhove-Kalerge was a prophet and mastermind of the "European Idea," self-image and identity.
In contrast to present day European Union, however Kalergi saw Europe primarily as an economic and political entity, a counterweight to the USA, Russia and Asia.
The principal aspects of Kalergi's concept of Europe were freedom, peace, prosperity and culture.
Present day Europe has adopted the self-image that Kalergi advocated immediately following World War I.
Kalergi called upon France and Germany to set aside their differences and concentrate instead on what they had in common.
In his view the Scandinavian countries should take the initiative and attempt to act as go-between in the rest of Europe.
However, Kalergi's ideas were quickly forgotten when World War II broke out.
During the Third Reich, the concept of a pan European Union was suppressed.
In 1938 he immigrated first to Switzerland and finally to the USA, where he became a professor of history at New York University.

Coudenhove-Kalergi remained true to his ideals until his death in 1972, and was pleased and optimistic about developments in Europe following World War II.
He was particularly enthusiastic about Winston Churchill's 1947 speech, which adopted the central points of his program.
On 18 May 1950 he received the first international Charlemagne Prize awarded by the city of Aachen for outstanding contributions to European unification.
In June 1950 he presented his concept for a European flag to the European Council.
 However, his proposal was disapproved on account of Turkey's opposition to the red cross in the middle of the flag.
In August 1955 he suggested that Beethoven's scoring of Schiller's "Ode to Joy" be adopted as the official European anthem.
In 1972 this became the official hymn of the European Council and in 1985 of the European Union.
Following Coudenhove-Kalergi's death in 1972, his longtime Vice President Otto von Habsburg became President of the International Paneuropean Union.
When Winston Churchill was awarded the Charlemagne Prize in 1955, Coudenhove Kalergi received the GROßKREUZ DES BUNDESVERDIENSTORDENS, the highest decoration of the Federal Republic.
[http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nikolaus_Graf_von_Coudenhove-Kalergi]

[2]  Cardinal Ratzinger „Freiheit und Wahrheit" in Jürgen Schwab, Otto Scrinzi, Über  die Revolution von 1848 Aula-Verlag, Graz 1998

[3]  Edward Bernays is included among the thousand most important persons of all time.  See also <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays>

[4] Excerpt from Noam Chomsky  „Profit over People – Neoliberalismus und globale Weltordnung", Europa Verlag, 2001, pp. 54-.

[5] Protocols of the Elders of Zion, 10th Sitting, Wallstein Publishing House, ISBN 3-89244-191-x, p. 60

[6] Caspar von Schrenck-Notzing, „Charakterwäsche – Die Politik der amerikanischen Umerziehung in Deutschland", Ullstein Verlag, Berlin 1996, pp. 118 - 143

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The translator is a "Germanophilic Germanist" who attempts to make noteworthy German articles accessible to Germanophiles who do not read German.

Here's freedom to him who would speak,
Here's freedom to him who would write;
For there's none ever feared that the truth should be heard,
Save him whom the truth would indict!
ROBERT BURNS (1759–96)





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Jack is pissed off at CEO Jeff Immelt and rightfully so, as GE announced plans yesterday to offshore its massive radiology manufacturing business to China.  Cafferty and Blitzer also remind viewers that that GE paid no corproate income taxes for 2009 and 2010 despite making several billion in U.S.-based profits.  Don't forget that Immelt is the head of Obama's Jobs Council and a board member of the New York Federal Reserve.




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Facebook firm on Holocaust denial pages, despite survivors’ letter

 


Facebook firm on Holocaust denial pages, despite survivors' letter
July 28, 2011

NEW YORK (JTA) -- Facebook, citing free speech, has rejected a request by Holocaust survivors to remove some pages that espouse Holocaust denial.

"We think it's important to maintain consistency in our policies, which don't generally prohibit people from making statements about historical events, no matter how ignorant the statement or how awful the event," the popular social networking site said in response to a letter from Holocaust survivors dated July 8.

Survivors and relatives of Holocaust victims wrote Facebook asking that the site change its policies permitting Holocaust denial before their aging generation is gone. The 21 survivors who signed the letter listed their concentration camps, ghettos and other Holocaust experiences below their names.

"We, the undersigned, are Holocaust Survivors who saw our parents, children and loved ones brutally murdered by the Nazis during the Holocaust," the letter begins. "We are writing to you to protest Facebook's policy that categorizes Holocaust denial as 'free speech,' rather than the shameless, cynical, and hateful propaganda that it is."

The letter goes on to point out that not only are the Holocaust-denial sites offensive and hateful, but also could negatively influence scores of people due to Facebook's popularity and accessibility.

"By allowing this hate propaganda on Facebook, you are exposing the public and, in particular, youth to the anti-Semitism which fueled the Holocaust," it says.

The survivors who signed the letter are volunteers at the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles who speak there and at its Museum of Tolerance.

Rabbi Abraham Cooper, the center's associate dean, criticized Facebook's policy on Holocaust denial.

"A review of denial sites currently active on Facebook confirms that it is not mere speech but that it constitutes at its core a platform for bigotry and hatred of Jews, dead and alive," said Cooper, who briefs online companies such as Facebook, Google and Yahoo on digital hate and terrorism.

He added, "We will continue to urge Facebook officials to reflect on the pain and suffering their policy is causing victims of the Shoah. For these aging heroes, every posting by deniers labels them, not victims of history's greatest crime, but liars and thieves."  






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A look at the Norwegian Erostratus as an antirevisionist, a Zionist and a nationalist

​On page 1365 of the English-language "manifesto" that, as the media inform us, the Norwegian Anders Breivik posted on the Internet just hours before embarking on his cold-blooded slaughter in two stages, the bomber and gunman holds forth on why "National Socialism is a dead ideology"; then, to the question "Are you a Holocaust denier?" he gives, on page 1366, the answer found below.

In brief, for him, the revisionists are in error and there was a Jewish holocaust, with its six million victims; he adds a bit further on: "I oppose deniers of the Jewish holocaust." He describes himself as  "a strong supporter of Israel and of all Jewish patriots." (It seems to me that the mainstream press has thus far kept hidden both this opposition to revisionism and this attachment to the State of Israel and the Zionists.) Finally, he states that he is wholly against what he calls "the Holocaust religion" for, with its emphasis on a genocide of 6 million Jews in Europe, it has the effect first of removing all national pride from Europeans and then of concealing a genocide, by Islam, of 300 million people throughout the world, a genocide that is still going on today, with Jews again amongst the victims. Breivik is in favour of nationalism, including Jewish nationalism.


Breivik's response (p. 1366) to the question: "Are you a Holocaust denier?"

Assuming of course that you are referring to the Jewish holocaust under Nazi Germany; no, I have reviewed the evidence, both the evidence presented by the Allied powers and the anti-holocaust evidence presented by the Axis Powers and neo-Nazi movements. I don't find the anti-holocaust evidence credible so I don't see a reason why anyone should deny the Jewish holocaust. As far as I have understood; Nazi Germany didn't originally want to annihilate the Jews. They were considering deportation but they didn't really have any location to deport them to, and they weren't offered any location by the allied forces. They didn't start massacring the Jews until after they realised that they were losing the war and the window of opportunity was closing fast (after the failed Russian invasion in1941). I guess, they used the following logic; they felt they had to cut out what they viewed as a cancer before they lost the war somewhat like many Serbs did during the Balkan war. They wanted to deport but as their adversaries made that impossible they chose the only solution (according to their logic). No one should try to justify genocide, it is a bad thing that cannot or should not be excused. There are always other options.

 

My problem with holocaust denial however is the European cultural Marxist/multiculturalist elite's refusal to acknowledge the Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, Zoroastrian genocides by the hand of the Islamic Ummah. Islam has systematically slaughtered more than 300 million people since its creation and this trend is continuing every year (see the continuation of the Assyrian, Coptic, Maronite, Hindu genocides in the Middle East). The politically correct elites of the EUSSR/USASSR are the true holocaust deniers as they refuse to acknowledge current and historical Islamic atrocities.

 

Furthermore, while I oppose deniers of the Jewish holocaust I realise that the "holocaust religion" is an extremely destructive force in Europe. Today, European youths are systematically brainwashed and made into pacifist eunuchs (school classes being bussed to former concentration camps and taught to reject their culture, pride etc.). Our elites, backed by the EUSSR/USASSR cultural hegemony, are stripping away any sense of pride and honour from European youths in a deliberate scheme to feminise/pacify them in order to prevent future Nazi movements from emerging. The problem here is that we are left with little to none cultural defences against any force which would want to conquer us. This is why the Islamic Ummah have been taken advantage of our lack of cultural defences and are currently colonising us, facilitated by our traitorous cultural Marxist/multiculturalist elites.

 

The "holocaust religion" has grown into a destructive anti-European monster, which prevents nationalistic doctrines from emerging. And without nationalistic doctrines, Europe will wither and die, which we are seeing today. It's quite ironic that Even Israel would appear to have become a victim of it. Needless to say, while I am a strong supporter of Israel and of all patriotic Jews I acknowledge that the anti-European holocaust religion must be deconstructed, and instead replaced with an anti-Islamic version. After all we are talking about a disproportion of 6 million killed Jews vs. 300 million massacred Jews/Christians/Hindus/Buddhists/Zoroastrians/Animists.

 

As of now, the "holocaust religion" is one of the major factors that are making Europe vulnerable and susceptible for Islamic conquest through demographical warfare.





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Jul 28, 2011

GOPers chant 'fire him' at RSC staffer

 

GOPers chant 'fire him' at RSC staffer

Members of the House Republican Party arriving at the GOP Conference Meeting. | Jay Westcott/POLITICO
'It was an unbelievable moment,' said one GOP insider. | Jay Westcott/POLITICO Close
By JOHN BRESNAHAN & JAKE SHERMAN | 7/27/11 12:00 PM EDT Updated: 7/28/11 6:47 AM EDT

House Republicans on Wednesday morning were calling for the firing of Republican Study Committee staffers after they were caught sending e-mails to conservative groups urging them to pressure GOP lawmakers to vote against a debt proposal from Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio).

Infuriated by the e-mails from Paul Teller, the executive director of the RSC, and other staffers, members started chanting "Fire him, fire him!" while Teller stood silently at a closed-door meetings of House Republicans.

"It was an unbelievable moment," said one GOP insider. "I've never seen anything like it." 

An RSC aide sent a Tuesday e-mail to outside conservatives seeking to "kill the Boehner deal." The RSC emails were sent to a listserv with conservative activists.

"We need statements coming up to the Hill every hour of the day in mounting opposition to the plan," RSC staffer Wesley Goodman wrote to a Google email group called "CutCapBalance." That group included Teller.

RSC Chairman Jim Jordan (Ohio), who opposes the Boehner plan, apologized for the incident.

Teller did not respond to a request for comment following the GOP Conference meeting.

In a brief interview with POLITICO on Wednesday, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) said he's "an RSC member and I don't like to see Republicans attacking other Republicans."

A steady stream of Republicans stood up at the meeting to heap abuse on Teller and the RSC. House Republicans were particularly peeved that the RSC was targeting some of its own dues-paying members.

Rep. Greg Walden (R-Ore.), a member of leadership and one of those targeted in an RSC email, stood up, read the message aloud and demanded Teller explain himself.

"If we keep this from ever coming to the floor, we have a greater chance of victory than defeating on a vote on the floor." Goodman ended his email saying: "Here are the people we need to reach today who are undecided or only leaning one way right now," according to the email, which was obtained by POLITICO.
Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-N.C.), an RSC member and one of those on the RSC "target list," said that leadership has given the RSC "everything that we have asked for." Ellmers said she may quit the group.

"Yet when it comes time for a little bit of compromise on the RSC's part, they're not willing to compromise. And that's just not the way to go about this," Ellmers said

Ellmers said there "seems to be a little bit more than a connection" between the RSC and outside conservative groups.

The RSC controversy comes as Boehner and the GOP leadership are twisting arms to get their members in line behind the debt package, which is supposed to come to the House floor Thursday.

Jordan and other conservatives are opposed to the measure, saying it does not go far enough in cutting government spending. The Congressional Budget Office ruled Tuesday that the Boehner plan falls $150 billion short of the $1 trillion goal set by Boehner, forcing House leaders to delay the vote by a day to revise the bill.

The CBO announcement worried some conservatives, who don't believe Boehner and the leadership have gone far enough in proposing spending cuts.

Yet the RSC fight was the focus of many members' attention Wednesday morning. "There are a lot of members really ticked off at this," said a GOP lawmaker, speaking on the condition of anonymity.

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