Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Ron Paul's Record Grassroots Fund Raising Results
No more can FOX News blame WebBots for Ron Paul's Internet success. WebBots don't donate millions of dollars, but true Exiled Americans seeking to restore the Republic and Constitution do. Ron Paul is now an acknowledged, first tier candidate, and, if the American population's voice is to be heard, the first real American President the United States has seen in many, many years.
December 15th and 16th will mark yet another fund raising drive for the Ron Paul Campaign. On December 15, 1791 the United States Bill of Rights was made law when ratified by the legislator of Virginia. On the 16th of December, eighteen years earlier, the American Patriots staged the Boston Tea Party. In 2007, these two days will be yet another call to freedom and to returning the Nation to the Exiled.
The Exiled American
Ray Zweidinger-Pohjola
Saturday, September 29, 2007
Global Call to Stop Cervical Cancer
In the aftermath of Texas governor, Rick Perry's, defeated Texas mandate to innoculate pre-teen girls with the HPV (Genital Human Papillomavirus) vaccine Gardasil, we find the Rockefeller Foundation engaged in their own agenda with HPV and their Global Call to Stop Cervical Cancer coalition (source). Two months after Gov. Perry was pressured not to move forward with the vaccine, a coalition of leaders at the World YWCA International Women’s Summit in Nairobi announced the launch of the HVP vaccine agenda.
The American Cancer Society projects that about 3,670 American women will die of cervical cancer in 2007 and over 500,000 worldwide. Although cervical cancer had been one of the most common cancers in women, its numbers declined between 1955 and 1992. The reason for this decrease is that Pap tests are able to detect the problem early when it is in its most curable stage. Also according to the American Cancer Society “half of women diagnosed with [cervical] cancer are between the ages of 35 and 55. It rarely [emphasis added] occurs in women younger than 20.” The cancer is also somewhat race specific with the highest occurrences being in Hispanic women with Afro-Americans being the secondary victims (source) followed by Caucasians. According to a 2003 chart (source) from the American Cancer Society, uterine cancer, which includes cervical and uterine corpus combined, falls between cancers of the stomach and pancreas. In other words, it is the second least fatal cancer of seven demonstrated on the graph. Statistically, Pap testing has been extremely successful.
In June 2003, Pap testing wasn’t enough, and the HPV Gardasil vaccine was introduced. A wonder vaccine that protects against 4 strains (6, 11, 16 and 18) of HPV, which cause 70% of cervical cancers and 90% of genital warts (source). In other words, the vaccine is a protection against various sexually transmitted diseases in a world where abstinence is no longer an option being taught to our youth. Notice that in the source links provided, the graphics on the pages all show smiling, young, pre-teen and teenage girls. Why is the target group for a disease that afflicts women approaching middle age so blatantly being sold to girls under 20. Remember, cervical cancer rarely afflicts women under the age of 20.
Texas became the first major battleground for HPV, which brought a certain amount of public awareness to the vaccine. On February 2, 2007, Gov. Rick Perry issued an executive order for mandatory HVP vaccination for all sixth-grade girls. In May 2007, The governor reversed his position, but not before a dismal wake of vaccine induced tragedies manifested.
According to an Associated Press article that appeared on May 9, 2007 “the Texas legislators… have questioned the vaccine’s safety, efficacy and cost.” In the same article, Republican Rep. Dennis Bonnen is quoted as saying, “We should not and are now not going to offer the 165,000 11-year-olds in Texas up to be the study group for Merck to find out what the implications of this vaccine would be for these girls.” Unfortunately, during the short time that the vaccine was being distributed, the results of the vaccine were evident.
What were those results? The Washington Times reported the following: severe headaches, dizziness, temporary loss of vision, loss of consciousness and seizures. All this, and no proof that Gardasil is even effective at all! (Washington Times 2007 archive on HVP vaccine). The Gardasil website offers these side effects: may cause pain, swelling, itching and redness at the injection site, fever, nausea and dizziness. Strange that the two lists only duplicate the side effect of dizziness! You’ll notice that the website also makes the claim that “the vaccine… may help guard against diseases that are caused by human papillomavirus (HPV) Types 6, 11, 16, and 18.” "May" is far from conclusive.
Dr. Ariel Pablos-Mendez, a managing director at the Rockefeller Foundation said, “The world cannot afford to wait for new HPV vaccines and screening tests to eventually trickle down from wealthy countries to developing countries where women need these life-saving products.” He calls this Nairobi agenda “an historic opportunity to save lives.” The doctor's comments are in stark opposition to the words of Texas Rep. Dennis Bonnen. What this project is really about is an abundant supply of test subjects who will not be mourned by the rest of the planet, while at the same time continuing a system of genocide via vaccine injections that has been ongoing for many years.
Let’s recall the statement of the American Cancer Society that HPV primarily attacks Hispanics and Blacks. Now consider the fact that the Rockefeller Foundation wants to inject thousands of third-world girls and women with the live virus. Take a moment to recall the negative and dangerous results of the vaccine when used on pre-teen Texas schoolgirls. Could this Global Call to Stop Cervical Cancer be yet another rung on the Eugenics ladder meant to depopulate the African continent?
A June 21, 2007 press release announced taking the agenda to Buenos Aires, Argentina. What devastating effects might the HPV vaccine have upon the Hispanic population of that country? Remember, we’re talking about injecting thousands upon thousands of the woman who fall into the highest cervical cancer risk group with the virus.
At the September 2007 Clinton Global Initiative conference in New York City, Merck announced that it will donate three million doses of Gardasil to developing countries. The global agenda continues, and the Globalists have found a new test group.
Conclusion: With the long term affects of Gardasil still an unknown, and mounting evidence of short term complications, the vaccine is far from ready to be meted out to the female population of our planet. Women in Third World nations are not the human guinea pigs for the wealthier nations to test their tonics and snake oils on. And when this is added to the mix of admitted depopulation agendas held by the Elite, isn't it worth the time to question why an untested vaccine should be made mandatory by executive order? Should we not question the fact that Governor Rick Perry has connections to Merck, both friendly and financially (source)? Should we not question why that same governor was summoned to appear before the Bilderberg Group's 2007 Conference? The questions could go on and on.
Remember, Merck promises absolutely nothing to the recipient. They are offering you a "Maybe" at $360.00 for 3-doses. Do you go for a yearly Polio test after taking the Polio vaccine? No. But those who have taken the 3-dose regiment are advised by Merck to continue going for yearly Pap tests just as they would without the vaccine. Why? Because the vaccine is not known to work. Pap tests allow for early detection of cervical cancer, and are the time-proven tool for taking the necessary steps to curing women of the disease since 1955.
Consider the advertisement aired in the United States promoting the vaccine. Again we are confronted with pre-teen and teenage girls begging to be innoculated. While ominous music plays in the background we're repeated told to be: One Less. Fear, again, being the primary advertising tool of the pharmaceutical industry. One less? Yes. Be one less taken in by the wolf in the fold. Be One Less to allow your daughter to become a test subject for yet another unproven "medical breakthrough."
And finally, vaccination should NEVER be mandatory or government controlled; especially with an unproven vaccine. Acquaint yourself with the laws governing your state regarding all vaccinations. Each vaccination needs to be considered before the needle penetrates your child's skin. Learn what ingredients are being pushed through your child's veins. Know your rights as a parent and take responsibility for your children. Educate yourself before putting anything into your child's body. The decision is in your hands.
After Word: I have read much speculation regarding whether or not the Gardasil HPV vaccine contains live virus. All the official documentation states that it does not, as it is, currently, impossible to culture the virus. However, it does contains virus like particles (?!) which stimulate the same immune response as the live virus. The virus like particles are created via recombinant genetic engineering that includes only a portion of a disease causing organism; since they do not contain the cancer inducing viral genes, these may be safer and create fewer side effects than vaccines made of whole organisms (source, page 15). Virus-like particles (VLPs) are defined as: Cultured cells [that] are genetically engineered to produce HPV capsid proteins which self assemble into empty shells resembling virus particles (source, Ibid). With that said, research is underway to create live HPV virus. This from the same source:
...Researchers are investigating the following five approaches to producing HPV antigens and delivering them to vaccine recipients:
Note to Finnish readers: the source quoted above states that Finland was one of the test countries for Gardasil. Pharmaceutical News reported on Oct. 19, 2006, that Sanofi Pasteur, a joint company of Merck and Sanofi-Aventis, began selling Gardasil in Austria, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Sweden and the United Kingdom (source).
Ray Zweidinger-Pohjola
The Exiled American
For Further Consideration:
The Great HPV Vaccine Hoax Exposed (Report by Mike Adams) *Added 12.30.2007
Eight More Deaths Contributed to Gardasil (Article)
Gardasil Follow-Up Report: Medical Alert (Article)
Gardasil - You Could Be One Less: A Mother's Story (Video)
Merck's Report on Gardasil (PDF File)
National Vaccine Information Center Gardasil Report (Website)
Gardasil Ingredients
(from the package insert)
Virus-like particles of HPV Types 6, 11, 16 and 18.
" The purified VLPs are adsorbed on preformed aluminum-containing adjuvant (amorphous aluminum hydroxyphosphate sulfate). The quadrivalent HPV VLP vaccine is a sterile liquid suspension that is prepared by combining the adsorbed VLPs of each HPV type and additional amounts of the aluminum- containing adjuvant and the final purification buffer."
"Each 0.5-mL dose of the vaccine contains approximately 225 mcg of aluminum (as amorphous aluminum hydroxyphosphate sulfate adjuvant),
9.56 mg of sodium chloride,
0.78 mg of L-histidine,
50 mcg of polysorbate 80,
35 mcg of sodium borate,
and water for injection.
The product does not contain a preservative or antibiotics."
Ingredients of Other Vaccines (Website)
Officials Say Drug Caused Nigeria Polio (Article)
The American Cancer Society projects that about 3,670 American women will die of cervical cancer in 2007 and over 500,000 worldwide. Although cervical cancer had been one of the most common cancers in women, its numbers declined between 1955 and 1992. The reason for this decrease is that Pap tests are able to detect the problem early when it is in its most curable stage. Also according to the American Cancer Society “half of women diagnosed with [cervical] cancer are between the ages of 35 and 55. It rarely [emphasis added] occurs in women younger than 20.” The cancer is also somewhat race specific with the highest occurrences being in Hispanic women with Afro-Americans being the secondary victims (source) followed by Caucasians. According to a 2003 chart (source) from the American Cancer Society, uterine cancer, which includes cervical and uterine corpus combined, falls between cancers of the stomach and pancreas. In other words, it is the second least fatal cancer of seven demonstrated on the graph. Statistically, Pap testing has been extremely successful.
In June 2003, Pap testing wasn’t enough, and the HPV Gardasil vaccine was introduced. A wonder vaccine that protects against 4 strains (6, 11, 16 and 18) of HPV, which cause 70% of cervical cancers and 90% of genital warts (source). In other words, the vaccine is a protection against various sexually transmitted diseases in a world where abstinence is no longer an option being taught to our youth. Notice that in the source links provided, the graphics on the pages all show smiling, young, pre-teen and teenage girls. Why is the target group for a disease that afflicts women approaching middle age so blatantly being sold to girls under 20. Remember, cervical cancer rarely afflicts women under the age of 20.
Texas became the first major battleground for HPV, which brought a certain amount of public awareness to the vaccine. On February 2, 2007, Gov. Rick Perry issued an executive order for mandatory HVP vaccination for all sixth-grade girls. In May 2007, The governor reversed his position, but not before a dismal wake of vaccine induced tragedies manifested.
According to an Associated Press article that appeared on May 9, 2007 “the Texas legislators… have questioned the vaccine’s safety, efficacy and cost.” In the same article, Republican Rep. Dennis Bonnen is quoted as saying, “We should not and are now not going to offer the 165,000 11-year-olds in Texas up to be the study group for Merck to find out what the implications of this vaccine would be for these girls.” Unfortunately, during the short time that the vaccine was being distributed, the results of the vaccine were evident.
What were those results? The Washington Times reported the following: severe headaches, dizziness, temporary loss of vision, loss of consciousness and seizures. All this, and no proof that Gardasil is even effective at all! (Washington Times 2007 archive on HVP vaccine). The Gardasil website offers these side effects: may cause pain, swelling, itching and redness at the injection site, fever, nausea and dizziness. Strange that the two lists only duplicate the side effect of dizziness! You’ll notice that the website also makes the claim that “the vaccine… may help guard against diseases that are caused by human papillomavirus (HPV) Types 6, 11, 16, and 18.” "May" is far from conclusive.
Dr. Ariel Pablos-Mendez, a managing director at the Rockefeller Foundation said, “The world cannot afford to wait for new HPV vaccines and screening tests to eventually trickle down from wealthy countries to developing countries where women need these life-saving products.” He calls this Nairobi agenda “an historic opportunity to save lives.” The doctor's comments are in stark opposition to the words of Texas Rep. Dennis Bonnen. What this project is really about is an abundant supply of test subjects who will not be mourned by the rest of the planet, while at the same time continuing a system of genocide via vaccine injections that has been ongoing for many years.
Let’s recall the statement of the American Cancer Society that HPV primarily attacks Hispanics and Blacks. Now consider the fact that the Rockefeller Foundation wants to inject thousands of third-world girls and women with the live virus. Take a moment to recall the negative and dangerous results of the vaccine when used on pre-teen Texas schoolgirls. Could this Global Call to Stop Cervical Cancer be yet another rung on the Eugenics ladder meant to depopulate the African continent?
A June 21, 2007 press release announced taking the agenda to Buenos Aires, Argentina. What devastating effects might the HPV vaccine have upon the Hispanic population of that country? Remember, we’re talking about injecting thousands upon thousands of the woman who fall into the highest cervical cancer risk group with the virus.
At the September 2007 Clinton Global Initiative conference in New York City, Merck announced that it will donate three million doses of Gardasil to developing countries. The global agenda continues, and the Globalists have found a new test group.
Conclusion: With the long term affects of Gardasil still an unknown, and mounting evidence of short term complications, the vaccine is far from ready to be meted out to the female population of our planet. Women in Third World nations are not the human guinea pigs for the wealthier nations to test their tonics and snake oils on. And when this is added to the mix of admitted depopulation agendas held by the Elite, isn't it worth the time to question why an untested vaccine should be made mandatory by executive order? Should we not question the fact that Governor Rick Perry has connections to Merck, both friendly and financially (source)? Should we not question why that same governor was summoned to appear before the Bilderberg Group's 2007 Conference? The questions could go on and on.
Remember, Merck promises absolutely nothing to the recipient. They are offering you a "Maybe" at $360.00 for 3-doses. Do you go for a yearly Polio test after taking the Polio vaccine? No. But those who have taken the 3-dose regiment are advised by Merck to continue going for yearly Pap tests just as they would without the vaccine. Why? Because the vaccine is not known to work. Pap tests allow for early detection of cervical cancer, and are the time-proven tool for taking the necessary steps to curing women of the disease since 1955.
Consider the advertisement aired in the United States promoting the vaccine. Again we are confronted with pre-teen and teenage girls begging to be innoculated. While ominous music plays in the background we're repeated told to be: One Less. Fear, again, being the primary advertising tool of the pharmaceutical industry. One less? Yes. Be one less taken in by the wolf in the fold. Be One Less to allow your daughter to become a test subject for yet another unproven "medical breakthrough."
And finally, vaccination should NEVER be mandatory or government controlled; especially with an unproven vaccine. Acquaint yourself with the laws governing your state regarding all vaccinations. Each vaccination needs to be considered before the needle penetrates your child's skin. Learn what ingredients are being pushed through your child's veins. Know your rights as a parent and take responsibility for your children. Educate yourself before putting anything into your child's body. The decision is in your hands.
After Word: I have read much speculation regarding whether or not the Gardasil HPV vaccine contains live virus. All the official documentation states that it does not, as it is, currently, impossible to culture the virus. However, it does contains virus like particles (?!) which stimulate the same immune response as the live virus. The virus like particles are created via recombinant genetic engineering that includes only a portion of a disease causing organism; since they do not contain the cancer inducing viral genes, these may be safer and create fewer side effects than vaccines made of whole organisms (source, page 15). Virus-like particles (VLPs) are defined as: Cultured cells [that] are genetically engineered to produce HPV capsid proteins which self assemble into empty shells resembling virus particles (source, Ibid). With that said, research is underway to create live HPV virus. This from the same source:
...Researchers are investigating the following five approaches to producing HPV antigens and delivering them to vaccine recipients:
- Recombinant live vector vaccines: A harmless host virus or bacteria is genetically engineered to produce an HPV antigen. The immune system responds both to the host organism and the HPV antigen.
- Protein and peptide vaccines: An organism, such as yeast, is genetically engineered to produce an HPV protein or peptide. After this antigen is purified, it is combined with an adjuvant that helps trigger the immune system.
- Virus-like particles (VLPs): Defined above.
- “Naked” DNA vaccines: HPV genetic material is inserted into bacterial plasmids. When these circular DNA structures are used in a vaccine, the DNA is expressed in human cells that then produce an HPV antigen.
- Edible vaccines: Plants are genetically engineered to express HPV antigens in fruits and vegetables. Eating the foods leads to immunization in the gastrointestinal tract.
Note to Finnish readers: the source quoted above states that Finland was one of the test countries for Gardasil. Pharmaceutical News reported on Oct. 19, 2006, that Sanofi Pasteur, a joint company of Merck and Sanofi-Aventis, began selling Gardasil in Austria, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Sweden and the United Kingdom (source).
Ray Zweidinger-Pohjola
The Exiled American
For Further Consideration:
The Great HPV Vaccine Hoax Exposed (Report by Mike Adams) *Added 12.30.2007
Eight More Deaths Contributed to Gardasil (Article)
Gardasil Follow-Up Report: Medical Alert (Article)
Gardasil - You Could Be One Less: A Mother's Story (Video)
Merck's Report on Gardasil (PDF File)
National Vaccine Information Center Gardasil Report (Website)
Gardasil Ingredients
(from the package insert)
Virus-like particles of HPV Types 6, 11, 16 and 18.
" The purified VLPs are adsorbed on preformed aluminum-containing adjuvant (amorphous aluminum hydroxyphosphate sulfate). The quadrivalent HPV VLP vaccine is a sterile liquid suspension that is prepared by combining the adsorbed VLPs of each HPV type and additional amounts of the aluminum- containing adjuvant and the final purification buffer."
"Each 0.5-mL dose of the vaccine contains approximately 225 mcg of aluminum (as amorphous aluminum hydroxyphosphate sulfate adjuvant),
9.56 mg of sodium chloride,
0.78 mg of L-histidine,
50 mcg of polysorbate 80,
35 mcg of sodium borate,
and water for injection.
The product does not contain a preservative or antibiotics."
Ingredients of Other Vaccines (Website)
Officials Say Drug Caused Nigeria Polio (Article)
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
The Disillusionaries- 4 Public Awareness Questions
Once again, Americans demonstrate their political unawareness and inexcusable ignorance. But before you're too fast to condemn... how well can you do with the four questions asked? Before watching the video answer these four questions:
The Exiled American
Ray Zweidinger-Pohjola
The United States Constitution (PDF File)
The United States Bill of Rights (PDF File)
- Who is the Vice-President of the United States?
- What does the 1st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution pertain too?
- In what year did the events of 9/11 happen?
- Who is the current United States Secretary of Defense?
"Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave."
The Exiled American
Ray Zweidinger-Pohjola
The United States Constitution (PDF File)
The United States Bill of Rights (PDF File)
Saturday, September 22, 2007
More UnBearable Taser News...
Although I am not categorically against the use of Tasers, it is becoming more and more obvious that their use must be reexamined. The Taser has become a "quick fix" and a form of aggression towards the suspect by the police wielding them. The Taser should be used in place of a gun. In other words, if conditions arise where the officer would normally draw his weapon to fire than a Taser should be employed. It should be used as a replacement for the lethal weapon, and not as a weapon of convenience to make the officer's life easier.
The use of TASERS was approved for testing in Finland from October 26, 2004 through May 31, 2005* (SOURCE), and the weapon was adopted in Finland as standard police gear shortly after the trial ended (SOURCE: In Finnish). According to TASER x26 supplier, TASER International, Inc., Finland was included among other countries that attended the 2006 European Tactical Conference. The focus of the conference "was to train the officers in the use of the TASER x26". I sincerely hope that the Finnish police force will be more discriminating in their use of the non-lethal TASER than their American counterparts. If not, we'll be seeing our own "home town" stories of people abused and killed by cops with non-lethal TASERS to add to the already abundant archive available Online (see TASER vidcaps here).
Personally, I believe the Finnish police force will use more restraint. Why? The Finnish police force is not manned by men and women who have spent several tours in active duty in live war theaters; in short, they have not learned to kill. The American police force is manned primarily by veterans who have served in the Gulf War of the early Nineties and those returning from the current Iraq invasion theater. These people are quite familiar with killing and see the citizens of America as "The Enemy" as much as they view the Iraqis their enemies. And what more can be expected when the Police Terrorist Manual concludes a person who refers to the American Constitution of the United States as a terrorist? Far too often, the American men and women in blue have forgotten their oath to "Protect and Serve". This is by no means an indictment against all American police officers, and we encourage those officers who still care about America to be alert and aware of the Wolves in the Fold.
A quick Google search will bring up numerous videos of people being Tasered brutally by your friendly, neighborhood men in blue. A recent Amnesty International website reports that more than 220 people have been killed by non-lethal TASER welding police officers (SOURCE) in the United States since 2001.
Note: See also POLICE STATE WATCH in the left column for more.
The Exiled American
Ray Zweidinger-Pohjola
The use of TASERS was approved for testing in Finland from October 26, 2004 through May 31, 2005* (SOURCE), and the weapon was adopted in Finland as standard police gear shortly after the trial ended (SOURCE: In Finnish). According to TASER x26 supplier, TASER International, Inc., Finland was included among other countries that attended the 2006 European Tactical Conference. The focus of the conference "was to train the officers in the use of the TASER x26". I sincerely hope that the Finnish police force will be more discriminating in their use of the non-lethal TASER than their American counterparts. If not, we'll be seeing our own "home town" stories of people abused and killed by cops with non-lethal TASERS to add to the already abundant archive available Online (see TASER vidcaps here).
Personally, I believe the Finnish police force will use more restraint. Why? The Finnish police force is not manned by men and women who have spent several tours in active duty in live war theaters; in short, they have not learned to kill. The American police force is manned primarily by veterans who have served in the Gulf War of the early Nineties and those returning from the current Iraq invasion theater. These people are quite familiar with killing and see the citizens of America as "The Enemy" as much as they view the Iraqis their enemies. And what more can be expected when the Police Terrorist Manual concludes a person who refers to the American Constitution of the United States as a terrorist? Far too often, the American men and women in blue have forgotten their oath to "Protect and Serve". This is by no means an indictment against all American police officers, and we encourage those officers who still care about America to be alert and aware of the Wolves in the Fold.
A quick Google search will bring up numerous videos of people being Tasered brutally by your friendly, neighborhood men in blue. A recent Amnesty International website reports that more than 220 people have been killed by non-lethal TASER welding police officers (SOURCE) in the United States since 2001.
Note: See also POLICE STATE WATCH in the left column for more.
The Exiled American
Ray Zweidinger-Pohjola
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
An Exiled American Tasered for Asking Lord Kerry About His Skull and Bones Affiliation
News Covered by MSNBC... Notice how they question the use of a TASER they then began to joke and make light of the situation.
Related Articles:
Kerry: Didn't Know Student Was Being Tasered
Caught on Tape: UF Student Zapped With Taser
The Brad Blog Report of the Tasering of Andrew Meyer
The Yorkshire Evening Post: A Tazer Freedom
And let's not forget:
Sunday, September 16, 2007
The Politics of the Potterverse: A Parable
The Christians deride J.K. Rowling and her work as satanic, while cheerfully laying the Harry Potter books upon bonfires and singing hymns. The Wiccan community derides J.K. Rowling because Harry rides his broomstick backwards and celebrates Christmas and Easter instead of the Winter Solstice and Spring Equinox. Even so, Harry magickally comes through triumphant with record book sales and accompanying movie deals with topnotch actors filling the roles of the fictional characters.
I was never a Harry Potter fan. I had never given in to the peer pressure to read the collected work of J. K. Rowling; although, I'll admit that I have seen all of the book-based movies, and even own a copy of the Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) DVD. I still am not a fan, but after seeing the latest film, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) the infrastructure of the tale captured my attention. Rowling has created a microcosm of the political macrocosm that we, unfortunately, find ourselves in today. It is that microcosm that we will explore.
Bloodline
A very important element of the Potterverse is Bloodline. And the issue of Bloodline is not lost on Rowling, who is British and fully aware of the meaning - both allegorical and literal - of Bloodline.
Bloodline continues to play an important part in American politics. Nearly every president of the United States can trace his lineage to the thrones of Europe. That world leadership is held in the hands of the minority can not be questioned. Bloodline plays its most important role in the doctrine of Divine Right of Kings. A doctrine that finds its source in ancient worlds of Sumer and Egypt.
This Divine Right of Kings sees certain bloodlines as being more worthy to rule over bloodlines. From the earliest times, bloodline control was in the hands of the Kings and Priests, who represented the two controlling systems used to our present time: politics and religion. Their "power" was handed down from father to son. Throughout history, there has been a struggle between these two factions for taking domination over its population. At times, the two bonded to become a single, dominating entity.
Perhaps the easiest example to site is the Roman Catholic Church, which had usurped power at the time of the collapse of the Roman Empire. This manipulative take over of politics by religion was accomplished through a forged document that came to be known as the Constitutum Donatio Constantini (Donation of Constantine). The document first appeared in ca. 752 A.D. during the papacy of Pope Stephen III (752-757). Donation purported to have been given to Pope Sylvester I by the Roman Emperor Constantine, who had made Christianity the national religion of the Empire. The document proclaimed the Pope to be the earthly representative of Jesus Christ, having authority over every kingdom and throne on earth, and named him Vicarius Filii Dei (Vicar of the Son of God). Further, the document gave the ruling Pope the authority to create and empower kings and queens. The adoption of this forgery began the birth pangs of the Holy Roman Empire beginning with the forced removal of the Merovingian bloodline that ruled Gaul, and culminating in the official birth of the union of Church and State government with the anointing of the Carolingian Charlemagne by Pope Leo III at Christmas mass on December 25th, 800 A.D. Religious and political laws, established by the Roman Church, were to be enforced by the kings that the Vatican had put into power.
In the Potter-verse witch community there are three tiers of witches: the Purebloods, the Mudbloods and the Muggle born. Purebloods are the descendants of parents who were both witches with no intermarrying within the family with Muggles, and seen as the Elite. Mudbloods are witches who have one Pureblood parent and one Muggle parent. And, finally, the Muggle born is the child of two Muggle parents who displays magical ability.
Bloodlines have been the source of countless genocides throughout the centuries. By the end of the series Mudbloods and Muggle-born are culled and removed from the community after undergoing interrogation and torture. The similarities to Nazi Germany, Stalin's Russia, Pol Pot's Cambodia, Mao's China - among a list of other such 20th-century atrocities - genocidal policies are easily seen. But, perhaps, less obvious is the present political climate in which we live; suspicion, mistrust, interrogation and torture is being laid upon the heads of the Muslim community. And in Afghanistan and Iraq, Arab peoples are being killed en mass. According to John Hopkins study (source) over 650,ooo Iraqis have been killed since the invasion began in March 2003. When the total dead from Desert Storm (1991) are added to the figure, the death toll is well over 1 million casualties of war. And with the unprecedented use of depleted uranium weapons since Desert Storm, the death toll will only increase over the coming years.
Defense Against the Dark Arts
These words from the American Constitution's Bill of Rights is perhaps one of the most contested freedoms of our time. But one need look no further than the writer of the U.S. Constitution to fully understand what this Second Amendment is meant to give We the People: the right to keep and bears arms. Why? To offer the American people a means of defense against its government should that government become unfit to govern.
Is it any wonder that one of the first acts of any dictatorship is to confiscate the citizens ability to defend themselves? We can once again call upon the usual list of historical suspects to find precedence for such action. And Rowling once again acquaints us with the strategy within the walls of Hogwarts, when she refuses to teach the pupils the practical use of magic against the Dark Arts. In so doing, she took away the students weapons, leaving them defenseless and at the mercy of dictatorial control. And the students, as any revolutionary thinker would do, formed themselves into a resistance to tyranny: Dumbledore's Army. There they made themselves ready for the battle ahead of them against the will of the dictatorship that had taken over the school.
Give Us This Day Our Daily Edict
The gradual eroding away of American's basic liberties is probably easiest seen in the current destruction of free speech. This erosion is, again, clearly exemplified by Rowling within the walls of Hogwarts. The imagery in the film of each edict handed down by the pink-draped, smiling dictator, Umbridge, speaks for itself as each edit is hang upon the wall until floor to ceiling is covered with documents outlining the restrictions of freedoms and privacy.
Through such bills as the Patriot Act and Patriot Act II - the former not even read by the Congress before being signed into law - Americans now find themselves without the liberties and freedoms that are outlined in the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights. And it has become a matter of public record that the people currently in control of the U.S. government have engaged in criminal surveillance of the American populace. Freedom to assembly and to protest these criminals has been named criminal itself. Freedom of Speech has been relegated to so-called Free Speech Zones, which are fenced in and kept far away from the activities being protested against. People are arrested for wearing anti-Bush regime t-shirts, bumper stickers and the like. And to add insult to injury, ignorant cops question whether a U.S. Constitution is legal or not! One wonders just how much the American people will endear before they are ready to take their country back.
Gonzales at Hogwarts
Rowling's shows us the heart of the Pink Lady and her lust for torture as "acceptable" punishment as well as information gathering tactics. Perhaps Umbridge took her torture policy from the memo of Alberto Gonzales (read here). In this memo, Gonzales outlines "acceptable" reasons for using torture. Reasons, I hasten to add, that were quickly adopted by the Neo-Con Bush regime. Gonzales may no longer be Attorney General of the United States of America, but his policies are still in full force.
The Golden Rule
I find it quite interesting that in the Potter-verse there is no paper money. Rather, the magical bartering system is with gold. Real gold! No Federal Reserve Bank Notes, no fiat currency! Just bright, shiny gold coins! Real money! In other words, the currency system that the United States should be using. Not the 1913 Jekyll Island creation of the Federal Reserve that took the American money system out of the hands of government and turned it over to private banking interests. This topic is too involved to go into deeply, but I encourage you to take the time to watch Aaron Russo's film America: Freedom to Fascism for a detailed history of the Federal reserve and the IRS.
Pay No Attention to the Men Behind the Curtain
But there is a more subtle thread woven through the Harry Potter-verse: a Ministry behind the Ministry of Magic; a government behind the government. Voldemort, we are told, has little interest in politics, and has no desire to be a part of the Ministry of Magic. We do discover, however, that he has no qualms about taking control of the government and pulling the strings in the background. Is Rowling alluding here to a "man behind the curtain" in our own reality? Do we really believe that George W. Bush is in charge? or is he a puppet? and if a puppet, who are the Puppet Masters. Again, this is a subject too large for the context of this article, but it is well worth considering the politics behind the politics.
Conclusion
So while the Christians burn and the Wiccans nitpick the essential truths of Easter, Christmas, the Winter Solstice and Spring Equinox, I choose to look deeper into Miss. Rowlings' Potter-verse and see a world all to similar to the one that we live and breathe in. A world that we as a population would be able to change - not through magickal spells and incantation - but by taking direct action and by speaking out against the evils that are all around us. For it is we ourselves who are to blame for the current state of affairs. It is our inaction and silence that allows these woes to persist. If we would stop to remember that it is basically 5% of the population that sees itself as our Bloodline ordained leaders the opposition does not seem so great. It took 12% of the American colonies population to raise up against the tyranny and establish a government for the people and by the people. It is not necessary to pick up arms and dispose the criminals that inhabit our hallowed halls of government. We need only arm ourselves with truth and the laws of governance as laid down by the Fore Fathers of these once great and united States of America.
I was never a Harry Potter fan. I had never given in to the peer pressure to read the collected work of J. K. Rowling; although, I'll admit that I have seen all of the book-based movies, and even own a copy of the Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) DVD. I still am not a fan, but after seeing the latest film, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) the infrastructure of the tale captured my attention. Rowling has created a microcosm of the political macrocosm that we, unfortunately, find ourselves in today. It is that microcosm that we will explore.
Bloodline
A very important element of the Potterverse is Bloodline. And the issue of Bloodline is not lost on Rowling, who is British and fully aware of the meaning - both allegorical and literal - of Bloodline.
Bloodline continues to play an important part in American politics. Nearly every president of the United States can trace his lineage to the thrones of Europe. That world leadership is held in the hands of the minority can not be questioned. Bloodline plays its most important role in the doctrine of Divine Right of Kings. A doctrine that finds its source in ancient worlds of Sumer and Egypt.
This Divine Right of Kings sees certain bloodlines as being more worthy to rule over bloodlines. From the earliest times, bloodline control was in the hands of the Kings and Priests, who represented the two controlling systems used to our present time: politics and religion. Their "power" was handed down from father to son. Throughout history, there has been a struggle between these two factions for taking domination over its population. At times, the two bonded to become a single, dominating entity.
Perhaps the easiest example to site is the Roman Catholic Church, which had usurped power at the time of the collapse of the Roman Empire. This manipulative take over of politics by religion was accomplished through a forged document that came to be known as the Constitutum Donatio Constantini (Donation of Constantine). The document first appeared in ca. 752 A.D. during the papacy of Pope Stephen III (752-757). Donation purported to have been given to Pope Sylvester I by the Roman Emperor Constantine, who had made Christianity the national religion of the Empire. The document proclaimed the Pope to be the earthly representative of Jesus Christ, having authority over every kingdom and throne on earth, and named him Vicarius Filii Dei (Vicar of the Son of God). Further, the document gave the ruling Pope the authority to create and empower kings and queens. The adoption of this forgery began the birth pangs of the Holy Roman Empire beginning with the forced removal of the Merovingian bloodline that ruled Gaul, and culminating in the official birth of the union of Church and State government with the anointing of the Carolingian Charlemagne by Pope Leo III at Christmas mass on December 25th, 800 A.D. Religious and political laws, established by the Roman Church, were to be enforced by the kings that the Vatican had put into power.
In the Potter-verse witch community there are three tiers of witches: the Purebloods, the Mudbloods and the Muggle born. Purebloods are the descendants of parents who were both witches with no intermarrying within the family with Muggles, and seen as the Elite. Mudbloods are witches who have one Pureblood parent and one Muggle parent. And, finally, the Muggle born is the child of two Muggle parents who displays magical ability.
Bloodlines have been the source of countless genocides throughout the centuries. By the end of the series Mudbloods and Muggle-born are culled and removed from the community after undergoing interrogation and torture. The similarities to Nazi Germany, Stalin's Russia, Pol Pot's Cambodia, Mao's China - among a list of other such 20th-century atrocities - genocidal policies are easily seen. But, perhaps, less obvious is the present political climate in which we live; suspicion, mistrust, interrogation and torture is being laid upon the heads of the Muslim community. And in Afghanistan and Iraq, Arab peoples are being killed en mass. According to John Hopkins study (source) over 650,ooo Iraqis have been killed since the invasion began in March 2003. When the total dead from Desert Storm (1991) are added to the figure, the death toll is well over 1 million casualties of war. And with the unprecedented use of depleted uranium weapons since Desert Storm, the death toll will only increase over the coming years.
Defense Against the Dark Arts
A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
-- The Bill of Rights: Amendment II
-- The Bill of Rights: Amendment II
These words from the American Constitution's Bill of Rights is perhaps one of the most contested freedoms of our time. But one need look no further than the writer of the U.S. Constitution to fully understand what this Second Amendment is meant to give We the People: the right to keep and bears arms. Why? To offer the American people a means of defense against its government should that government become unfit to govern.
Is it any wonder that one of the first acts of any dictatorship is to confiscate the citizens ability to defend themselves? We can once again call upon the usual list of historical suspects to find precedence for such action. And Rowling once again acquaints us with the strategy within the walls of Hogwarts, when she refuses to teach the pupils the practical use of magic against the Dark Arts. In so doing, she took away the students weapons, leaving them defenseless and at the mercy of dictatorial control. And the students, as any revolutionary thinker would do, formed themselves into a resistance to tyranny: Dumbledore's Army. There they made themselves ready for the battle ahead of them against the will of the dictatorship that had taken over the school.
Give Us This Day Our Daily Edict
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
-- The Bill of Rights: Amendment I
-- The Bill of Rights: Amendment I
The gradual eroding away of American's basic liberties is probably easiest seen in the current destruction of free speech. This erosion is, again, clearly exemplified by Rowling within the walls of Hogwarts. The imagery in the film of each edict handed down by the pink-draped, smiling dictator, Umbridge, speaks for itself as each edit is hang upon the wall until floor to ceiling is covered with documents outlining the restrictions of freedoms and privacy.
Through such bills as the Patriot Act and Patriot Act II - the former not even read by the Congress before being signed into law - Americans now find themselves without the liberties and freedoms that are outlined in the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights. And it has become a matter of public record that the people currently in control of the U.S. government have engaged in criminal surveillance of the American populace. Freedom to assembly and to protest these criminals has been named criminal itself. Freedom of Speech has been relegated to so-called Free Speech Zones, which are fenced in and kept far away from the activities being protested against. People are arrested for wearing anti-Bush regime t-shirts, bumper stickers and the like. And to add insult to injury, ignorant cops question whether a U.S. Constitution is legal or not! One wonders just how much the American people will endear before they are ready to take their country back.
Gonzales at Hogwarts
Rowling's shows us the heart of the Pink Lady and her lust for torture as "acceptable" punishment as well as information gathering tactics. Perhaps Umbridge took her torture policy from the memo of Alberto Gonzales (read here). In this memo, Gonzales outlines "acceptable" reasons for using torture. Reasons, I hasten to add, that were quickly adopted by the Neo-Con Bush regime. Gonzales may no longer be Attorney General of the United States of America, but his policies are still in full force.
The Golden Rule
He who owns the gold makes the rules.
--Anonymous
--Anonymous
I find it quite interesting that in the Potter-verse there is no paper money. Rather, the magical bartering system is with gold. Real gold! No Federal Reserve Bank Notes, no fiat currency! Just bright, shiny gold coins! Real money! In other words, the currency system that the United States should be using. Not the 1913 Jekyll Island creation of the Federal Reserve that took the American money system out of the hands of government and turned it over to private banking interests. This topic is too involved to go into deeply, but I encourage you to take the time to watch Aaron Russo's film America: Freedom to Fascism for a detailed history of the Federal reserve and the IRS.
Pay No Attention to the Men Behind the Curtain
But there is a more subtle thread woven through the Harry Potter-verse: a Ministry behind the Ministry of Magic; a government behind the government. Voldemort, we are told, has little interest in politics, and has no desire to be a part of the Ministry of Magic. We do discover, however, that he has no qualms about taking control of the government and pulling the strings in the background. Is Rowling alluding here to a "man behind the curtain" in our own reality? Do we really believe that George W. Bush is in charge? or is he a puppet? and if a puppet, who are the Puppet Masters. Again, this is a subject too large for the context of this article, but it is well worth considering the politics behind the politics.
Conclusion
So while the Christians burn and the Wiccans nitpick the essential truths of Easter, Christmas, the Winter Solstice and Spring Equinox, I choose to look deeper into Miss. Rowlings' Potter-verse and see a world all to similar to the one that we live and breathe in. A world that we as a population would be able to change - not through magickal spells and incantation - but by taking direct action and by speaking out against the evils that are all around us. For it is we ourselves who are to blame for the current state of affairs. It is our inaction and silence that allows these woes to persist. If we would stop to remember that it is basically 5% of the population that sees itself as our Bloodline ordained leaders the opposition does not seem so great. It took 12% of the American colonies population to raise up against the tyranny and establish a government for the people and by the people. It is not necessary to pick up arms and dispose the criminals that inhabit our hallowed halls of government. We need only arm ourselves with truth and the laws of governance as laid down by the Fore Fathers of these once great and united States of America.
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Geraldo Rivera or Alex Jones?
Alex Jones and wearechange.org were protesting in New York City when they discovered that Geraldo Rivera was filming live FOX "News" nearby. He was covering such news worthy topics as gay sex in bathrooms, bimbos in short shirts and hot cars. Meanwhile, the Patriots were in the background demanding Truth from the men in Washington D.C.
On September 7, 2007, Alex Jones was arrested for using his ever present bullhorn, but released with a $200.00 ticket soon after. Contrary to Internet rumor, he was not tazered.
And now AOL wants to know: Who's message should be heard? Geraldo's or Jones? You are the judge. You can submit your response here.
THREAD UPDATE: The poll closed with Alex Jones at 90% and Geraldo at 3%. The remaining 7% were undecided.
The Exiled American,
Ray Zweidinger-Pohjola
On September 7, 2007, Alex Jones was arrested for using his ever present bullhorn, but released with a $200.00 ticket soon after. Contrary to Internet rumor, he was not tazered.
And now AOL wants to know: Who's message should be heard? Geraldo's or Jones? You are the judge. You can submit your response here.
THREAD UPDATE: The poll closed with Alex Jones at 90% and Geraldo at 3%. The remaining 7% were undecided.
The Exiled American,
Ray Zweidinger-Pohjola
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