Rogue Think-Tankistan Launches Weapons Of Mass Illusion

Daniel McAdams at LRC blog:

“According to FBI director Robert Muller, the latest FBI-created-and-miraculously-defeated terror threat –– this time straight out of Iran and straight from the top — was something “straight out of a Hollywood script.” Well, he should know so we’ll take him at his word.

Although the same neocons who are probably writing these Hollywood scripts are screaming “this means war!!”, we cannot help but wonder just how deep is the manipulation of our media and our government by shadow forces both foreign and domestic pushing us covertly toward another war.

Considering the latest news out of the UK, where the male partner of recently departed in scandal Defense Secretary Liam Fox is revealed to have been working covertly with the Mossad to overthrow the Iranian government, these speculations should no longer be written off as the conspiratorial thinking of feverish minds.

Disgraced Secretary Fox had been jet-setting all over the world with his “best man,” Adam Werritty, in tow; Werrittty passed himself off as Fox’s de facto chief of staff and it is in this capacity that he has been engaged over the past several years covertly bumping up the Iranian “opposition” — the same Green Movement that some of us were attacked for suggesting had a very, umm, Western flavor — and attempting to overthrow the Iranian regime.

Just the outlandish suggestion that a booze-addled Iranian immigrant used car salesman was plotting to have the Saudi ambassador assassinated was enough to have the media, ThinkTankistan, and the Left/Right interventionists screaming that an “act of war” had been committed by Iran and demanding an invasion. Yet why is it never an act of war when Western spooks go into Iran in blatant attempt to overthrow its government and foment phony “Green Revolutions” where scores are killed?”

With the Fox scandal breaking big in the UK, it is increasingly obvious that these scripts written to bring the US and its allies to a disastrous war on Iran are more of a collaborative effort, perhaps Hollywood, Langley, and Tel Aviv.”

Arundhathi Roy: Anna Hazare Is A Trojan For American NGOs

I disagree sometimes with Arundhathi Roy’s positions and rhetoric, but this issue I agree with her. Arundhathi, an artist, smells something fishy in the Anna Hazare movement.

The Jan Lokpal bill is a ”regressive piece of legislation” and Anna Hazare has been ”used as a prop by foreign-funded NGOs” to lead the anti-corruption movement, writer and activist Arundhati Roy has said.

In an interview to CNN IBN, Roy said she is glad that the civil society’s Jan Lokpal bill did not go through in parliament. “I am extremely glad that the Jan Lokpal bill did not go through parliament in its current form,” Roy said.

“I think the legislation is a dangerous piece of work. You used the real and legitimate anger of the people against corruption to push through this specific piece of legislation, which is very regressive according to me,” she added.

Alleging that activist Anna Hazare, who spearheaded the anti-corruption movement, was used just as a prop, Roy said: “It was an NGO-driven movement by Kiran Bedi, (Arvind) Kejriwal and (Manish) Sisodia. Three of them run NGOs.”

“I wanted to indicate why these NGOs are participating to mediate in what the public policy should be. World Bank and Ford Foundation fund the anti-corruption campaigns. Anna Hazare was picked up and propped up as the saint for the masses. He was not the brain behind the movement,” she added.

Talking about the Jan Lokpal bill, Roy said that it attempts to create a form of “parallel oligarchy”. “The Jan Lokpal team, including the chairman, is to be selected by a pool of elite people and they are a pool of elite people. You have a bureaucracy which will have the policing power, the power to tap phones, prosecute, charge and judge from the prime minister to the bottom,” she said.

Roy also questioned the media for its 24X7 coverage of Hazare’s 12-day fast. “For a nation of one billion people, the media did not find anything else to report,” she said, adding that “certain major TV channels campaigned for” the movement. “That’s a kind of corruption for me at first place”.

My Comment:

That is of course what I have been saying here for many years….

Being anti-government is a naive position if you don’t understand that there is a shadow government far more dangerous than the folks who hold 9 to 5 jobs at the post office. Really.

It is the entry of the shadow government into the daylight government that has destroyed it.

Some libertarians would say that that emergence is inevitable. I disagree, although I think they are right if they are talking about the governments of empires. But then, the governments of empires are already corrupt by virtue of their nature as the pinnacle of the mercantilist system.

The same thing is unlikely to be true of a local government in a small republic.

The main thing is not to let ideology and slogans get in the way of practical wisdom.

Holding to your principles is right, but nothing wrong with also holding to your knowledge of history and your street smarts.

A map, to repeat myself, is not the road.

Fake Revolutions: Indian Edition

Wikileaks has been driving the so-called anti-corruption struggle of Anna Hazare in India, which the English media in India, the uncritical product of colonized minds in post-colonial bodies, has been relentlessly promoting.

The Anna Hazare-led anti-corruption movement seems to be supported by both the extreme right communal (race-baiting) faction (RSS-related), as well as by the mouthpieces of the transnational world of civil-society outfits and NGOs funded by the globalists (Rockefeller Foundation). The usual suspects behind the OccupyWallStreet protests.

These kinds of serial coordinated nation-wide protests across the globe can only be produced by big, big money, with all kinds of government, police and secret service connections.

Closely related movements (Assange is the common factor) that name-check Zionist Rupert Murdoch on one hand (Wikileaks), get the support of another globalist financier Soros (OWS), on the other;  that have Anonymous behind them (OWS) and are also connected to some factions of the Hindu RSS (Anna Hazare), are not spontaneous uprisings of the masses, most of whom are too busy trying to survive.

An Indian blog, Exit and Opinion Polls In India, writes:

“Thanks to 24×7 television, we have come to be accustomed to protesters supporting Anna Hazare waving the Indian flags or have the flag painted into their faces or body and chanting patriotic songs like Vande Mantram; vociferously demanding India adopt the Jan Lok Pal Bill. The whole movement have been projected. as the country’s second independence struggle.

When the  movement against corruption was launched, the Lokpal bill was seen as a possible solution. It was but the backdrop against which a larger fight was being launched. Watching these protestors, priorities seem to have changed. As one blogger, Aseem Rastogi commented:

” Where is the cause in midst of all the protests? Are people more worried about Anna than the Lokpal? Are people thinking more about Anna’s health than removing corruption from the society? Does the general public realise what they are fighting for?”

A CNN-IBN state of the Nation poll across 19 states and 20,000 respondents,  found that only 1/3rd of Indians  heard about the Jan Lokpal Bill and of these, only 1/4th have some vague idea what the bill is about. Put simply, these are a bunch of  mostly ignorant people, either driven by pure emotion or publicity hungry individuals  who want to be captured by the 24×7 news channels. Most  are totally naive to accept Team Anna’s propaganda that a “strong Lokpal” will banish corruption  from our country like waving  a magic wand.

So what are they fighting for? If they are the super-patriots in our society,  none question why the Jan Lok Bill which they are campaigning to be adopted by the country initially called for the ‘selection’ committee to be constituted by only “All Nobel Laureates of Indian Origin” or “Last two Magsaysay Award winners of Indian origin”.

It is a well known fact only nominees approved by the U.S. government can win the Nobel Prize. As far as the Magsaysay Award winners are concerned, this award is an American award for Asians established and funded by the Rockefeller Foundation ostensibly in memory of Ramon Magsaysay, the former President of Philippines. As a scrutiny of the previous winners of the Magasaysay Award shows it is entirely reserved for civil society actors,

This is the reason why to date neither the Nobel nor Magsaysay committees have conferred their awards to Gandhiji but the Magsaysay award have been conferred to almost all the leading lights of Team Anna – Anna Hazare; Kiran Bedi and Arvind Kejriwal. These scamsters by this clause was ensuring that all future Lok Pals will be their choice or proxies to do their bidding.

Fortunately for us, stung by wide public criticism, the latest version of the Bill drops the Nobel laureates and the Magsaysay winners, and brings in “retired army personnel who are five star Generals”. It tells you a bit about where the balance of power is tilting. The miltrary? As if they are untouched by this scourge and there had been no scams like Adarsh Housing!

A RSS leaning scholar, N.T.Ravindranath comprehensively exposes the civil society design in his paper : Anna Hazare lands up in fifth columnist camp. Read more: http://www.satyashodh.com/Anna%20Hazare_NTR_180511.pdf

This is a must read for all trying to understand the Anna phenomenon. It will make it clear why it takes more than a topi and fast for Anna to be accepted as a second Gandhi and the the so called second freedom struggle is really more about mortgaging your freedom.
Prashant Bhusan from ground zero threw down the challenge: Are you for Anna or not? Let’s stand up and be counted to say no. This blog will be pleased to publish any articles to defeat the Anna scam on the country.

Meanwhile, boycott Times Now and Arnab Goswami, the rabble rouser who turned Anna from a non-entity to a 24×7 news phenomenon.

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Gerald Celente Calls For Direct Democracy

Memewatchers (via Korey Snodgrass, from the comment section of The Daily Bell):

http://memewatchers.com/gerald-celente-calls-for-new-world-order

“Government is corrupt and abusive but it can be fixed all we need is transparent and direct democracy. Now thanks to the Internet it is all possible. Hurray!!! Big government is now finally gonna work. We are gonna create our own New World Order.

George Celente was interviewed by Alex Jones yesterday and during the interview he called for a New World Order controlled by Direct Democracy. Amazingly Alex failed to question him on this astounding proclamation, instead Alex simply replied ‘well it is no doubt our republic is broken’. Claims like these are very troublesome especially when they are coming from well known figures in the alternative media known to be allies in the fight against the New World Order.”

My Comment:

No, dear memewatchers. It is not “troublesome”.

It is to be expected.

Where have you been? Celente’s stuff is all over the net, he is interviewed on TV, and there is always a price for such acceptance and approval.

We have quoted Celente many times and we like what he says, when it is on specific topics. But we have seen how he picks up themes and even ideas that are in the air but never gets too concrete about anything. We said nothing, hoping for the best, but prepared for the worst.

Celente cannot change the terms of the debate.

The corporate-state cannot be fought on its own terms – mass acceptance, traditional outlets, PC-bounded debate. The medium will kill the message everytime.

James Altucher, the financial blogger, has already broached “Direct Democracy” (abolish the President and Congress and take referendums on the net directly). Gerald Celente is another. Both are from the financial media in New York. That is significant, surely. They are surely not outsiders in the financial media, however much they might adopt the language of outsiders.

And there will be many more such insider “outsiders” using the language of the politicians and the business classes.

This language – advertising, opinion-polling, perception- management, consumer satisfaction – is nothing more than the language of corporations and the methods of mass manufacture and distribution.

It is also the language of the state.

Government (posing as anti-government) will operate forcibly, through secret control of weaponry by agents of the NWO in each ostensibly sovereign state; through the infiltration and subversion of government organs on behalf of transnational rather than local interests; through the human rights regimes and NWOs; and through blackmail and bribery by the spy agencies and police forces of all kinds.

Anyone can see how this will enable the social media mafia (Google, Facebook, Wikipedia, Digg, etc), the establishment media (CJR,  WashPo, NY Times, WSJ etc), the establishment alternatives (Nation, Democracy Now, Alternet etc), the speculator-hedge funds and banksters (Soros etc.), the psyops folks (probably Wikileaks, and other “controlled opposition” anti-empire and even anti-NWO mouthpieces) and the secret spy agencies (NSA, CIA etc) to come together to control what becomes an issue, what doesn’t, what the parameters of debate are, how problems are solved, and who profits.

With advertising, and behavior modification as highly developed as they are now, it will be nothing to sway the masses one way or other from behind the curtains. The wizard will be gone. But a whole team of puppet-masters will take his place.

Thus the corporate-communist convergence instantiated in Occupy Wall Street.

Local autocrats will be overthrown. In their place will come scientific tyranny, masquerading as Direct Democracy, Free Markets (if that’s your cup of tea) or Anarchist Socialism (if it’s not).

Different strokes, but the same folks.

There is no such thing as a large centrally-controlled republic.

There can only be federated republics.

A large centrally controlled republic is only another name for oligarchy.

Oligarchy, disguised as “direct participatory democracy” is secret rule by oligarchs.

Secret rule = Tyranny.

I do not  say that direct referendums necessarily lack merit. They might work, were we living in small city states…. and were the internet discontinuous, fragmented, and highly private…. and were most people rational, well-educated, self-critical and self-reliant.

But we aren’t, it isn’t, and they aren’t.

So Direct Internet Democracy will not be anarchism, right or left, and it won’t be Christian liberty. Nor will it be federalism or decentralization.

It will be the direct control of the masses through electronic networks, propaganda, surveillance, and co-option of alternative mouthpieces of all stripes, across the board.

Direct Electronic Democracy = Tyranny

I call it Direct Electronic Action for Tyrants and Demagogues

Which equals DEATH. The death of true liberty.

Still,  I let me be perverse and say that I don’t oppose OWS completely, because that is what the mass of people want.

The mass of people, of course, is not the majority of people. The mass of people is simply people acting as masses. Which is a different thing.

But nonetheless the masses are a lot of people.

Now, truth (little t) lives in some form in all people, no matter how far they seem to be from Truth (big t). And so the truth of this moment is exhaustion, fear, burden, terror. The truth of this moment is security.

People want security and are willing to give up their freedom for it.  So be it.

It cannot be too much worse than the nightmare that the corporate-state brought to the world in the 20th century.

Those who had liberty used it to worship power. State power and money power.

Now their worship of power is moving toward to its logical conclusion.

Yet, it isn’t for us to predict doom. We were not called to be Jeremiah.

So we will hold out some small hope.

OWS and Assange may be red flags, but red is as good a color as any. It beats being blue. Blue is sad, it’s fearful. You see red, you’re angry.

Anger is fear projected outward. It’s action. Even if the action is not so much direct action, as directed action.

Action –  good or bad, we’ll see.  Perhaps it will correct itself as it goes along..

Meanwhile, we tend our own garden and keep our distance, if not our silence..

Deleted: OWS Staging Clashes With Cops: Calling All Kids, Women, and Non-Whites

Update:

I’ve deleted those emails from Breitbart. Thomas Ryan turns out to be a security cop/pro who posed as a protester and then  got their emails under false pretenses and forwarded it to Breitbart. The cops might have been involved.

The protesters have a right to their private lists and communications. Also, after reviewing one of the videos of the organizers on Big Government, I have to say their scary captions and sinister music did not match what was actually being said by the activist on the video.  So, there’s image manipulation going on at OWS, sure, but I’m not sure the conservative picture of it is truthful either.

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OccupyWallStreet emails reveal intentional placement of women and children in front lines to dominate TV imagery in clashes with cops

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Wikileaks, Soros, & Khameini Heart OccupyWallStreet

Update:

Julian Assange has shown up at the protests at the London Stock Exchange. More theater. Ayatollah Khameini (whom many libertarians consider part of the globalist crowd) has claimed it will topple capitalism (talk about seeding memes).

Hate to do the color-coding of the optics of this public spectacle here, but I couldn’t help noticing that most (not all) of the OWS protests in New York seemed to be white. And the names of all the protests in London sound like the folks would be white.

But when they were arresting insider traders all this while, so many of those faces turned out to be, you know, Sri Lankans, various Chinese and Middle-Eastern folks and other non-whites, although most people know that most of Wall Street is….. um…. well….. not to put too fine a point on it….. white.

Notice those nationalities I mentioned – Chinese, Middle Eastern, and Sri Lankans – are in the cross-hairs of both the nationalist imperialists and the “anti-empire” transnationalists (via International Criminal Court and human rights abuses, enter Francis Boyle and Bruce Fein).

Empire and anti-empire both co-opted by the Anglo-Zio elites.

So do you get the subtle message being sent that crimes when they are committed are largely by all those non-whites?

But when there is global resistance, truth-telling, and salvation of the masses, then it’s always… um…. well…… not to put too fine a point on it…..white.

Such is the language of empire, to those of us who have been listening to its subtexts for a lifetime.

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The New York Times has a piece that references someone else who supports OccupyWallStreet, John Paulson, a speculator who seems to have ties to the banking mafia behind the 2008 market collapse. Interesting. Soros supports OWS, which,  as I have already noted, is going out of its way to instill fear that it is anti-middle class, not just against financial corruption or “the rich”.

Correction: I incorrectly included John Paulson, the speculator, in this group, because I misread what he said. Apparently, he is completely AGAINST OccupyWallStreet.  Well, that is good news.  Maybe, he’s aware of how dangerous this could be.  However, Jim Chanos, apparently has lent support to it].

Now why would they do that? Why would they hold up signs against “white collars”, make explicit references to the middle-class as “contributing nothing”? How does that help them? Why is it that student loans are such a big part of the protests, according to some? What is the common thread?

The explanation that fits all these facts is that this is a deliberate attempt by the powers-that-be, the very same people who caused the collapse, to create a fake opposition that deliberately provokes the middle-class libertarians who form the bulk of Paul supporters and anti-Fed activists, who really do know where the problem lies. By doing so, it steals their following and muddies their message.  Thus the focus on student loans hints that the target audience of this theater is NOT the working classes all over the world, but the western middle class, which is being directed to think along certain lines.

By antagonizing that class, the movement corners popular anger, claims the mantle of anarchist from anti-state anarchists,  increases support for a global regulatory regime and central control, while also staying on top of all real anarchist opposition and discrediting it.

The New York Times:

“Generally, bankers dismiss the protesters as gullible and unsophisticated. Not many are willing to say this out loud, for fear of drawing public ire — or the masses to their doorsteps. “Anybody who dismisses them publicly is putting a bull’s-eye on their back,” the hedge fund manager said.
I’ll come back to this and add some links so you’ll see what I’m saying.

Gary North On How Capitalism Tamed Steve Jobs’ Vices

Gary North (Lew Rockwell):

“By many accounts, Steve Jobs was a mean, ruthless SOB. He was the living incarnation of the opposite of those people who gave him his start in life, beginning with his parents, who sacrificed for his education.

That was the great tragedy of Steve Jobs. He was productive as few men ever are. He was driven internally – by what? – to serve customers well. As a driven man, he drove others. But at the start of his career were people who were not driven and who did not drive him. They let him follow his gut. They let him connect the dots at his leisure and their expense. Those forgotten people – unknown to us, but not by God – made possible his success.

Read the testimony again. Look for the central word.

It wasn’t all romantic. I didn’t have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends’ rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.

The central word is “I.” This was the paradox of Steve Jobs’ life. It was all “I,” yet to build up his own ego, he had to serve customers.

CONCLUSION

The free market made possible his economic success. The free society made possible his early life as a moocher. Voluntarism was at the heart of Steve Jobs’ success.

He absorbed others’ charity and returned the favor to others, not as charity, but as profit-seeking output. This economic system has made us all rich in the West, by any standard of pre-1850 comparison. As P. J. O’Rourke put it, “When you think of the good old days, think ‘dentistry.'”

The free market is a moral system, not because it makes men moral, but because it rewards those who serve others efficiently and penalizes those who don’t.

Steve Jobs’ personal characteristics in his economically productive years did not inspire the development of those virtues which had made his early years productive. In another economic system or social order, Steve Jobs would have made a first-class tyrant. He was far more Simon Legree than Uncle Tom. But the free market made him a giant”

The Meme of “Coming Revolution” Is Just A Meme

I look at the classifieds and I watch the lines at the stores. Yes, jobs are harder to get for working people, and yes, there are fewer benefits. Yes, it’s harder to be in the middle class, but still….

It’s as if someone WANTS to put the fear of revolution out there…

Maybe tampering with LIBOR and market indices is too obvious these days. Why not a staged “revolution”?

Where I am, you can’t get someone out to work for under $12/hr (manual work needing no skills). At Walmart , you can get a loaf of bread for a little over a dollar, if you look.  Flour and rice are still cheap. Beans are cheap.  Canned fish costs very little.  Clothes are cheap. Furniture is cheap. You can get a second hand car for 500 bucks.  Houses prices are lower than they have ever been in years. You can rent a nice home in a middle-class neighborhood for $500 a month and a room for $200. Mortgage rates are low. The only things that are high-priced are things the government has been subsidizing, like education. And there’s never been a better time to skip university. I wish I had. I would have been considerably better off.  Health care is expensive, but not alternative health, and for $200 you can always fly to Mexico, if you need to.

What is Occupy Wall Street crying about?

Student debt? Here’s a thought, go to a lawyer and comb through your loan applications. He may find a way to mitigate some of the terms or even get them waived. Consider suing your university for misleading representations.  File bankruptcy, if nothing else can be done.

Then start over. Sure, you’ll never get a loan, but that is strictly a good thing. With housing prices this low, you don’t need one. If you’re willing to put in sweat equity (a few cans of paint and a rag), give me a buzz and I’ll find you a house for under $20,000, including my finder’s fee. I kid you not. And you can buy it with 10% down.

How to save money?

Live in your parents’ basement, shop in thrift stores, cook at home, and make being thrifty a game. Or if there aren’t any jobs at home, move to Texas or N. Dakota where there are.

Then fall on your knees and thank the stars that you were born in the United States of America.

Except for the surveillance, it’s still one of the best places to live and work.

DNA Disproves British Israelism (Note Added)

ADDED (APRIL 18 2015)

The source of Christian Identity and other British Israel-related race theories is actually  no where in the Old Testament.

It is in the Talmud (Babylonian and Palestinian), the Rabbinical oral commentaries on the Torah that were put down into writing  between the 3rd and 5th century AD.

The authoritative work, The Sages: Their Concepts,” Ephraim Urbach (Author),  I. Abraham (Transl), Hebrew University Magnes Press, 1975,  informs us that in the Rabbinical tradition the original sin/guilt of mankind, induced by the Serpent’s copulation with Eve (which gave birth to Cain, according to the Rabbis), was alleviated at Mount Sinai for the Israelites, but not for Gentiles.

This tradition is the source of the Rabbinical/Jewish belief in the descent of Gentiles from Cain and not, like Jews, from Adam.

Christian Identity simply reverses the two-seed theory and makes Jews the descendants of Cain.

ORIGINAL POST

British Israelism, which I believe is the best  way to call all the various theories claiming that Anglo-Saxon man is tied racially to ancient Israel, is fundamentally a post-hoc justification for political supremacy, since DNA and linguistic evidence completely contradict it, and the folk derivations it points to are largely anecdotal and tenuous.

BI arose after the conquest of the New World in its earliest form, and quickly penetrated many Protestant sects, or churches close to them, like Christian Science. Mary Baker Eddy accepted it.

Although some forms of it are benign and no more than a literary hobby, some forms, such as Christian Identity, which informs some of the Patriot movement in the US, are virulently racist, both toward Jews, and toward non-whites in general.

Jews, in this account, are said to be Satan’s seed (children of Edom in the Bible) and non-whites are said to even lack a soul.

Whites on the other hands are said to descend from the Biblical Israel.

Never mind that the DNA evidence, mapped globally since about 2000, has completely disproved this.

No doubt such beliefs colored Eustace Mullins’ own writings about Federal Reserve.

One wonders how these beliefs might have colored his perception of government and money.

DNArefutesbi.com:

In 2001, Sykes went on to write the popular book The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry, which described the seven major haplogroups of European ancestors.

This book more than any other indirectly takes British Israelism to task through the Mitochondria — genetic DNA tracing through the maternal line.

After being summoned in 1997 to an archaeological site to examine the remains of a five-thousand-year-old man, Bryan Sykes ultimately was able to prove not only that the man was a European but also that he has living relatives in England today. In this lucid, absorbing account, Sykes reveals how the identification of a particular strand of DNA that passes unbroken through the maternal line allows scientists to trace our genetic makeup all the way back to prehistoric times, to seven primeval women, the Seven Daughters of Eve.

There are other problems with equating DNA of the Western Europeans with those of Israel Descent. Studies are quite definitive about paternal lines from thousands of years ago. One such study evaluated the lineage of the Aaronic Priesthood through the line of “Cohen”.

Y-chromosomal Aaron is the name given to the hypothesised most recent common ancestor of many of the patrilineal Jewish priestly caste known as Kohanim (singular “Kohen”, “Cohen”, or Kohane). In the Torah, this ancestor is identified as Aaron, the brother of Moses. The hypothetical most recent common ancestor was therefore jocularly dubbed “Y-chromosomal Aaron”, in analogy to Y-chromosomal Adam.

The original scientific research was based on the discovery that a majority of present-day Jewish Kohanim either share, or are only one step removed from, a pattern of values for 6 Y-STR markers, which researchers named the Cohen Modal Haplotype (CMH). However it subsequently became clear that this six marker pattern was widespread in many communities where men had Y chromosomes which fell into Haplogroup J; the six-marker CMH was not specific just to Cohens, nor even just to Jews, but was a survival from the origins of Haplogroup J, about 30,000 years ago.

More recent research, using a larger number of Y-STR markers to gain higher resolution more specific genetic signatures, has indicated that about half of contemporary Jewish Kohanim, who share Y-chromosomal haplogroup J1c3 (also called J-P58), do indeed appear to be very closely related. A further approximately 15% of Kohanim fall into a second distinct group, sharing a different but similarly tightly related ancestry. This second group fall under haplogroup J2a (J-M410). A number of other smaller lineage groups are also observed. Only one of these haplogroups could indicate ancestry from Aaron.

The J1e and J2a possible Cohen clusters (only one of them could indicate ancestry from Aaron), when including those tested who are of Sephardi background, have been estimated as descending from most recent common ancestors living 3,200 ± 1,100 and 4,200 ± 1,300 years ago respectively. Ashkenazis only have been estimated by the same article as descending from most recent common ancestors living 2,400 ± 800 and 3,800 ± 1,200 years ago respectively.

What is being analyzed are variations in DNA sequence called single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs, pronounced “snips” by the apparently very cute researchers who look for them). SNPs are passed down from generation to generation intact and thereby become markers of particular lineages. Those who have descended from the same ancient groups of people will share the same SNP markers. These ancestral lines have been classified into haplogroups. A haplogroup is all the haplotypes that share a single common ancestor, and these lineages can be traced back multiple thousands of years.

The two relevant lineages are haplogroup J and haplogroup R. The SNP markers of the former, J, are found most predominantly among speakers of Semitic languages in the Levant. J is the haplogroup most strongly associated with Israelite ancestry, while representatives of haplogroup R are found almost exclusively in Europe and Asia, where Indo-European languages flourished. The most recent common ancestor between haplogroups J and R is haplogroup IJK, which split off into IJ (progenitor of J) and K (progenitor of R, via K(xLT), via P) some 45,000 years ago. That’s long before the Hebrews coalesced into a discernible collection of tribes out of the Canaanite hill people from which they descended–long before there were Canaanites to descend from. The time referred to here is the Stone Age, before agriculture–before the extinction / absorption of Neanderthals. That’s how incredibly long ago these two haplogroups diverged from a common ancestor. They are about as unrelated as you can get within the same species.

Haplogroup J — that of the Jews / Israelites is nonexistent in the British Isles map of DNA Y-Chromosome distribution (see McDonald’s World Haplogroups Maps below).

The proof that DNA refutes British Israelism is given on their British Israelism Website under:

Compatibility with present-day research findings

Lack of consistency with modern genetic findings

Human genetics does not support British Israelism’s notion of a close lineal link between Jews and Western Europeans. Genetic research on the Y-chromosomes of Jews has found that Jews are closely related to other populations originating in the Middle East, such as Kurds, Turks, Armenians and Arabs, and concluded that:

Middle Eastern populations…are closely related and…their Y chromosome pool is distinct from that of Europeans. (Nebel, 2001.)

Y-DNA Haplogroups J2 and, to a lesser extent, J1 are most commonly identified in Jewish people, which is in contrast to Western Europeans. The more distant Haplogroup R1b is the most commonly identified in Europeans.”

Workers Of The World Unite: You Have Nothing To Lose Except Your Self-Respect

Class-warfare on the bourgeois (read, Judeo-Christian) virtues by Yale professors:

“As we all know from the great Marx-Bakunin controversy, it was the anarchist constituencies that actually rose up: whether in Spain, Russia, China, Nicaragua, or Mozambique. Yet every time they did so, they ended up under the administration of socialist bureaucrats who embraced that ethos of productivism, that utopia of over-burdened shelves

(Lila: evidently Graeber has never lived in a socialist country and longed for over-burdened shelves, like many hard working Asian bourgeois women, whose lives were immeasurably improved by them)

and consumer plenty, even though this was the last thing they would ever have been able to provide.

The irony became that the social benefits the Soviet Union and similar regimes actually were able to provide—more time, since work discipline becomes a completely different thing when one effectively cannot be fired from one’s job—were precisely the ones they couldn’t acknowledge; it has to be referred to as “the problem of absenteeism”, standing in the way of an impossible future full of shoes and consumer electronics. But if you think about it, even here, it’s not entirely different. Trade unionists feel obliged to adopt bourgeois terms—in which productivity and labor discipline are absolute values—and act as if the freedom to lounge about on a construction sites is not a hard-won right but actually a problem. Granted, it would be much better to simply work four hours a day than do four hours worth of work in eight (and better still to strive to dissolve the distinction between work and play entirely), but surely this is better than nothing. The world needs less work.

All this is not to say that there are not plenty of working class people who are justly proud of what they make and do, just that it is the perversity of capitalism (state capitalism included) that this very desire is used against us, and we know it. As a result, the great paradox of working class life is that while working class people and working class sensibilities are responsible for almost everything of redeeming value in modern life—from shish kebab to rock’n’roll to public libraries (and honestly, do the administrative, “middle” classes ever really create anything?) they are creative precisely when they are not working—that is, in that domain of which cultural theorists so obnoxiously refer to as “consumption.” Which of course makes it possible for the administrative classes (amongst whom I count capitalists) to simultaneously dismiss their creativity, steal it, and sell it back to them.

The question is how to break the assumption that engaging in hard work—and by extension, dutifully obeying orders—is somehow an intrinsically moral enterprise. This is an idea that, admittedly, has even affected large sections of the working class. For anyone truly interested in human liberation, this is the most pernicious question. In public debate, one of the few things everyone seems to have to agree with is that only those willing to work—or even more, only those willing to submit themselves to well-nigh insane degrees of labor discipline—could possibly be morally deserving of anything—that not just work, work of the sort considered valuable by financial markets—is the only legitimate moral justification for rewards of any sort. This is not an economic argument. It’s a moral one. It’s pretty obvious that there are many circumstances where, even from the economists’ perspective, too much work and too much labor discipline is entirely counterproductive. Yet every time there is a crisis, the answer on all sides is always the same: people need to work more! There’s someone out there working less than they could be—handicapped people who are not quite as handicapped as they’re making themselves out to be, French oil workers who get to retire before their souls and bodies are entirely destroyed, art students, lazy porters, benefit cheats—and somehow, this must be what’s ruining things for everyone.”

Comment:

According to Comrade Graeber:

1. Work is unnecessary, because we don’t need to produce anything (er, that’s a PhD in anthropology for you, a mark of complete insanity)

2. There is too much consumption anyway (maybe, but let each man decide for himself)

3. The “working” class (i.e.  manual labor) built everything of value (nice try at buttering up your constituency, but likely when the heads start rolling, you won’t be counted among the brawny and fit-to-live)

There’s much more, but a nauseated stomach makes it impossible for me to read.  Pol Pot would be proud. Next, the Occupiers will be taking out people who wear glasses or own a vegetable plot. Round up the kulaks! The commissars have come.

What a lot of twaddle. No one is claiming that handicapped people are living off productive folk. Unless you’re talking about the morally handicapped financial elites or the morally blind academics (like this one), or the morally vicious (like the media).

I contrast this with the real working man’s credo that such sophisticates dismiss as simple-minded and sentimental:

“Toiling,—rejoicing,—sorrowing, Onward through life he goes; Each morning sees some task begin, Each evening sees it close;Something attempted, something done, Has earned a night’s repose. Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend, For the lesson thou hast taught! Thus at the flaming forge of life. Our fortunes must be wrought;Thus on its sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed and thought!”

More sense in this doggerel by Longfellow, apparently, than a PhD from London.

Notice that, like financiers who support them (Soros), the great enemy of this fellow is not the rich. It’s the middle-class and its religious values.

Thus comes the capitalist-communist convergence,  with its collective boot on the neck of the American kulak.