Will we ever know?
Even if Trump releases the files will he have removed all the evidence pointing to himself!
Trump – convicted sex pest, rapist with a declared ‘liking’ for young girls and a long history of partying with Epstein.
Hmmmm. Might explain why Trump is suppressing the release of the files.
He was playing with dynamite trying to make out it was Clinton and the democrats who were on the client list when he knew all along it was himself.
Misogyny in Religion
I thought it was about time I reasserted my hatred for the misogyny that stems from the three Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity and Islam) to pervade our culture.
The general scientific view is that genders are equal when it comes to intelligence. The highest recorded IQ was a woman – “Marilyn vos Savant is known as the person with the highest IQ ever recorded and has often been referred to as “the smartest person in the world.”
Due to the impact of hormones (testosterone in particular) males tend to be bigger, more muscular and stronger. In stone-age times this made them better at hunting and fighting off predators (though I wouldn’t mind betting there are a lot of women who would do a lot better at that than a lot of males). This lead to a division of labour and a male dominance.
Testosterone also leads to more aggressive behaviour. Males are generally more violent.
In the present day world this strength and aggression counts for nothing. We have technology to do the work. There is nothing women can’t do as good, or better, than men.
The problem lies with the hangover from stone-age culture. The three Abrahamic religions came out of a small region of the Middle East. They started up in Patriarchal nomadic Arab culture where women were highly controlled chattels, where chastity was a prerequisite and the culture was highly sexually repressive.
In the contemporary cultures women are still highly repressed because of this.
Christianity
Christianity underwent the enlightenment and lost its chokehold on culture. Along with science we found that women became freer. The suffragettes and women’s movements, along with reduced religious influence, have enabled women to strive for equality. They no longer are forced to wear headscarves and hide their natural form behind heavy robes. They now have the vote, take part in business and government. Technically they are equals though the reality is still far from that. But we are heading in the right direction (even if Christian cults still make women second-class and try to put them back in their place as chattels).
Judaism
Orthodox Jews still hold their women as second-class citizens. Long skirts, high necklines, covered arms and covered hair, separation in the synagogue, secondary roles – subservient to their men – though they are allowed professions.
Islam
Islam is the current worst offender when it comes to women’s rights – such horrors as genital mutilation, forced child marriage, depriving of education, depriving of professions, a strict dress code of Burqas and Niqabs so that women are either kept out of sight behind high walls (as in Oman) or shrouded in long robes and face coverings. They are meant to be obedient and there are draconian punishments for adultery (stoning to death) or breaking the dress code (whipping). It really is something out of the Stone Age.
The most obscene aspect of this barbaric sexually repressed patriarchy is that this Arab cult promises a heaven in which the men will lounge around being waited on by maidens with unlimited sex with virgins. Not sure where this unlimited supply of virgins is coming from, what’s in it for the women? (a paradise where they have an unlimited supply of well-endowed studs perhaps?) Or what the purpose of all that actually is?
This is the kind of obscene nutcase ideas being touted:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1273890658097467392
The Islamic purpose of life is endless sex with virgins?? Not exactly metaphysical.
The truth of the matter is that all three religions stem from the same heavy-handed patriarchal Arab society and share the same misogyny. In those primitive war-like nomadic cultures women were possessions, kept out of sight and traded for political/financial gain. The culture of those warring tribes is prevalent in the ‘holy’ books they base their prejudices on.
In the modern world women find it hard to gain their rightful equal place. Christianity might be presently better but is still far from perfect. Islam is currently way behind and still wishes to exist back a thousand five hundred years in the past.
In my opinion it’s about time that the world came together to enforce women’s rights as being equal to that of men!
The Savagery
The savagery man is capable of
When he believes his cause to be just.
There is no end to his barbarity
When devoured by this lust.
His arrogance breeds belligerence
That leads all the way to war.
His intolerance destroys empathy
To shake morality to the core.
All it takes is outrage,
Religious fanaticism or political zeal.
A charismatic leader’s inspiration
Sparking the reason to kill.
Placing nails inside a bomb.
Slicing off heads with a knife.
Massacring the innocent.
Rewarded with paradise or a child wife.
All in the name of someone’s god
Or a fanatical leader.
Become a torturer
Or propaganda breeder.
It does not take much
To release the savage hate.
A traumatic death
Or promise of a better fate.
Opher – 18.5.2021
I was watching the hatred being stirred up in the Middle East as the Israelis and Palestinians clash.
The rockets soar and the guns crash.
The martyred are used to enrage.
Years and years of humiliations, degradation and abuse.
The evil scum of Hamas harvest that hate and hone it into a weapon. The fanatical Jews treat the Palestinians as sub-humans and seek to kick them out.
Illegal settlements, rocks, knifings and bombs.
What a senseless world we create for ourselves. Rationality goes out the window.
When the government believes it is above the rule of law we are in trouble.
When they control the media we are in trouble.
When they suppress protest we are in trouble.
We are heading towards Putin – oppression and suppression – and a one-party state.
Is Sue Gray tied up and gagged in a basement in Downing Street?
Stupidity, Insanity and Terror
Intelligent people
Believing in invisible beings
Do terrible things
For dubious reasons.
Ordinary people
Joining tyrannical regimes
Are fully trained
To follow orders.
Military people
Following instructions
Dispense violence
In sterile basements.
Wealthy elites,
Powerful dictators
Employ mindless monkeys
To control the masses.
Mindless monkeys
Are trained
To overcome morality
Humanity and compassion.
The cycle of terror
Continues
As it benefits a few
And controls others.
Opher – 25.2.2022
I was thinking of the religious terrorism, political extremes and war. I was thinking about the powers that lurk behind it all.
All over the world the masses of people are controlled, fed lies and propaganda, exploited and used, abused, threatened and beaten.
The system is self-perpetuating. A powerful, wealthy elite ensure that the right people are elected, the right propaganda is issued and back it up with violence.
Protest is crushed.
Faceless minions are dispensed to create ‘law and order’ and maintain the status quo.
The masses are persuaded to vote for their own jailers.
The elite is maintained. All the wealth flows into their coffers. The people are given just enough to stop them waking up from the thrall, to stop them rioting.
The faceless elite ensure that Putin, Trump, Bolsonaro, Erdogan, Modi, Johnson and Orban are put in place.
A force of minions are employed to suppress the people. These zombies are trained to follow orders, put aside their own feelings and shoot their own people. The more psychotic are trained as torturers.
They are called soldiers, police, security guards, secret police and peace keepers. Without them the system doesn’t work.
Robber Barons
Robber Barons down the years
With no compassion in their hearts
Practice their cruel brutality
With gleeful brazen treachery.
With arrogance sufficient to sink a ship
They strut and preen and snarl
Stab, torture
And laugh,
Stamping down the bewildered
With delight.
They rode amid the blood and guts
Roaring, slashing, trampling
With gay abandon
To steal the fruits of other’s labors
And love it all the more
For the agony
They create.
Once with chainmail and sword
They roared.
Now armed with a suit and pen,
Sweet words
And reassurance.
Their cold eyes
Belie the intrinsic pleasure
As they strip you naked
And leave you for dead.
Shaking your hand with a smile
As they grip you by the throat
And never relax the vice-like grip
Upon your balls.
Opher 23.2.2018
There are a psychotic, sociopathic group of men, mainly men, who have operated down the centuries to rampage and destroy, rape, torture and strip bare. Their callous viciousness attracts like-twisted monsters who go along for the ride. They plunder all they can and enjoy the anguish and destruction they leave in their wake.
In a harsh environment people put their energies into creating harmony and clawing a living out of the ground. They slowly build up and create comfort for their family, storing up resources over the decades, only to find all their toil undone.
In a matter of minutes the hordes rampaged through ravishing, burning, plundering and laying waste. Rape and torture is their currency. Havoc is their joy. For it is easier to rip the goods of others from their hands than to produce it oneself.
When they rode off through the smoke the survivors gathered to survey the carnage, bury the dead and attempt to rebuild their lives.
These robber barons ruled the land, built the castles and became the law. They stole all they could, enclosed it, claimed it and held it by force.
They are still there. Their land is still walled off. The newbies wear they suits and flash their perfect smiles as they strip you of your life.
They’ve always enjoyed the agony. One man’s freedom is another man’s terror.
Setting up a blog in Saudi Arabia can kill you!
Exercising freedom of Speech can seriously damage your health.
A blogger sentenced to 1000 lashes!!! And 12 years imprisonment!! This is obscene!!
Just think what I’d get for running this blog and writing my controversial books.
This is what the guardian newspaper reported:
A Saudi blogger convicted of insulting Islam was brought after Friday prayers to a public square in the port city of Jeddah and flogged 50 times before hundreds of spectators, a witness to the lashing said.
The witness said Raif Badawi’s feet and hands were shackled during the flogging but his face was visible. He remained silent and did not cry out, said the witness, who spoke to the Associated Press on condition of anonymity fearing government reprisal.
Badawi was sentenced last May to 10 years in prison and 1,000 lashes. He had criticized Saudi Arabia’s powerful clerics on a liberal blog he founded. The blog has since been shut down. He was also ordered to pay a fine of 1m riyals or about $266,600.
Rights activists say Saudi authorities are using Badawi’s case as a warning to others who think to criticise the kingdom’s powerful religious establishment from which the ruling family partly derives its authority.
London-based Amnesty International said he would receive 50 lashes once a week for 20 weeks. The US, a close ally of Saudi Arabia, has called on authorities to cancel the punishment.
Despite international pleas for his release, Badawi, a father of three, was brought from prison by bus to the public square on Friday and flogged on the back in front of a crowd that had just finished midday prayers at a nearby mosque. His face was visible and, throughout the flogging, he clenched his eyes and remained silent, said the witness.
The witness, who also has close knowledge of the case, said the lashing lasted about 15 minutes.
Badawi has been held since mid-2012 after he founded the Free Saudi Liberals blog. He used it to criticise the kingdom’s influential clerics who follow a strict, conservative interpretation of Islam known as Wahhabism, which originated in Saudi Arabia.
He was originally sentenced in 2013 to seven years in prison and 600 lashes in relation to the charges, but after an appeal the judge stiffened the punishment. Following his arrest, his wife and children left the kingdom for Canada.
Rights groups argue that the case against Badawi is part of a wider crackdown on freedom of speech and dissent in Saudi Arabia since the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings. Criticism of clerics is seen as a red line because of their prestige in the kingdom, as well as their influential role in supporting government policies.
According to Amnesty the charges against Badawi mention his failure to remove articles by other people on his website. He was also accused in court of ridiculing Saudi Arabia’s morality police.
In a statement after the flogging Amnesty called it a “vicious act of cruelty” and said Badawi’s “only ‘crime’ was to exercise his right to freedom of expression by setting up a website for public discussion”.
The US state department spokeswoman Jen Psaki called the punishment an “inhumane” response to someone exercising his right to freedom of expression and religion.
In New York, Farhan Haq, deputy spokesman for the UN secretary general, told reporters on Friday that the UN human rights office was “very concerned about the flogging” and had previously raised concerns about harsh sentences in Saudi Arabia for human rights defenders.