...is also of Jewish descent on his mother’s side.
He won re-election in New Zealand for a third term last year.
He is also pro gay marriage.
His ties to the banking cartel led by Goldman Sachs are listed here.
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Tom Sowell: We Need Thought-Control
Thomas Sowell is often a smart guy. But not always.
You shouldn’t discuss inequality, he says.
[Added: I know that title might not have been written by him and I know that he doesn’t tell you in so many words not to discuss inequality in outcomes, but that is the tendency of this piece and several others on the subject he’s written. All inequalities of outcome are not the result of inequalities of opportunity, he says. Fine. Then he cites basketball-playing and university entrance tests. Well, those are specific areas where native abilities can be shown to play a dominating role. However, what Sowell – and many libertarians – then do is to broaden this argument to a generalization that all unequal outcomes must then be the result of differing capacities, and not of other, sometimes malign, factors.
If you read LRC consistently and see when they trot out Tom Sowell , it’s invariably on race-related issues, when the fact that he is a black man gives the argument more weight.
Sowell would prefer people NOT to look at diversities of outcome but to focus on equality of opportunity. But, if malign social factors come into play, attention to opportunity equality is beside the point and Sowell’s argument becomes diversionary and tool used to keep people looking away from what is indeed often (not always) a very powerful indicator of something amiss.
Well, a philosophy of radical egalitarianism is one thing. Discussing inequalities is another.
Apparently Sowell cannot see the difference between natural distributions of wealth and power and unnatural distributions.
And he doesn’t want you to talk about either of them.
Now,there are people who grow taller than others, because of genes.
And then there are others who are wearing 10 inch high boots.
And still others are actually standing on the second floor of the house.
Sowell thinks that differentiating between these people is counter-productive to wealth creation.
Oh really?
How much wealth has Thomas Sowell created, as a think-tank book-writer?
Goldmanite PM Takes Over In Australia
Just saw this (h/t to LRC via Zerohedge):
Malcolm Turnbull has confirmed he is sticking with the [Australian] Government’s policies on climate change and gay marriage during his first Question Time as Prime Minister.”
Malcolm Turnbull used to be a Goldman Sachs partner. That makes this a Goldman coup.
Allegedly [he claims it is not certain] Turnbull is Jewish, on his mother’s side.
Climate-Change is the pretext for complete control of economic life.
Gay Marriage is the pretext for complete control of social life.
Edom vs. Israel = Athens vs. Jerusalem
A scholar [I incorrectly assumed the writer was a Rabbi] lets the Kabbalistic cat out of the bag in the piece below.
Unfortunately, Patrick Buchanan and other “third-world armageddon” pontificators don’t seem to get the message.
Or maybe it’s just much easier to kick at another set of victims than to address themselves to the real Masters of the Universe…yes, the guys who pull Goldman’s strings.
“Chanukah is an eight-day annual Jewish holiday. But it also lays claim as the start of western civilization. Not Jewish civilization, which was already old at the time of the first Chanukah in the second century before the common era, and not Hellenic (ancient Greek) civilization, which was also ancient. But the encounter of the West with Judaism, of reason with revelation, of Athens with Jerusalem: that began on Chanukah.
“Man,” said an ancient Greek philosopher, “is the measure of all things.” The Bible disagrees: “the fear of the Lord,” it says, “is the beginning of wisdom.” Who is right? A great debate about G?d and man lies at the heart of the West. From Sinai to Babylon, from the lions to the Crusaders, from the Wars of Religion to the Age of Reason–and of Revolution, from Stalin to John Paul II, from eugenics to a belief that life is sacred, and from globalism to a respect for individual states – even Israel! — it remains the central question. Athens and Jerusalem still are what they always were, the struggling twins of the West.
[ Lila: That would be Esau/Edom versus Israel. Jesus/Christianity is Esau, Paganism is Edom.]
Chanukah commemorates a miraculous victory in a war in 167 B.C.E. A Greco-Macedonian kingdom, centered in what is today Syria, had tried to outlaw the Jewish religion in its homeland in Judea and to replace it with Hellenic culture. Many Jews, in fact, supported that goal. But that is no surprise, because Hellenism had enormous appeal.
Hellenism seemed to have everything going for it. It was up-to-date, sophisticated, and intellectually satisfying. It offered wealth, health, art, and glamour. It represented the entrance ticket to an imperial civilization. Hellenism offered the opportunity to think big.
Judaism sat at the opposite end of the scale. It was old, small, and poor. It had no empire. It had nothing to offer except faith, trust, love, and strength. But those things, it turns out, are items that the human heart cannot do without.
So the miraculous happened. A small band, burning with faith, went on to defeat an empire.
There is, of course, a rational explanation; there always is. “The Syrian-Greek state had passed its prime.” “The Jews had short lines of communication.” “They mastered guerrilla tactics.” “The Greeks overplayed their hand.” “Judea wasn’t worth the bones of a Macedonian grenadier anyhow.” If rational explanations are enough for you, then take your pick.
But if you think that “the heart has its reasons that reason knows not of,” if you think that there is more to life than shifting particles, if you respect science without worshipping it – in short, if you doubt that man is G?d, then wonder at the light of a miracle burning in the dark days of winter.”
Of course, this is an insightful and rich statement taken in simply literary terms. But it is, like Cahn’s Shemitah prophecy, both superficial and misleading.
And, taken literally, it is the very essence of what it condemns: It is a masterpiece of hubris.
And that is a Greek pagan word that translates very roughly to “the beginning of wisdom is the fear of the gods.”
Hey,Hey, Ho, Ho, Western Civ Has Got To Go!
Remember that famous chant Jesse Jackson led on campus, “Hey,hey, ho, ho, Western Civ has got to go”?
It was directed against the centrality of Western classics in the University curriculum. They were to be replaced by more multicultural texts.
Ever since then, the mud people of the third-world, on whose behalf the meddlesome Jackson claimed to be speaking albeit uninvited, have been blamed for the death of Europe.
No one considered that there was a higher power that had a more malevolent and deep-rooted agenda than a mere revamp of the college canon.
From Jewish Answers:
Whether or not a particular person or nation is a biological descendant of Esau is obviously impossible to determine and not really important; what is essential to understand is that the World view of Esau has been passed down as a cultural inheritance throughout history from Edom, to the Roman Empire, to the Catholic Church, to Modern Europe and most recently to the United States and its ‘empire’ – in other words, Western Civilization as a whole. This World view has obviously been in a constant state of evolution throughout the generations – America, the land founded on tolerance has been a most fertile land for the Jews – Europe, on the other hand, was a nightmare; this dichotomy in Esau’s personality is brought out by our Sages in these two seemingly contradictory sources; on the one hand the Medrash states:
The name Esau has the same numerical value as Shalom (Peace)” (Kalla Rabati,3)
On the other hand, the Talmud analyses a verse in psalms:
” ‘Do not remove his bit…’(Psalms 140:9) – said Jacob to the Holy One: Master of the Universe – do not allow Esau his hearts desire…this refers to Germany of Edom, for if they were to be allowed loose, they would destroy the world! (Talmud Megilla, 6a-6b)
Rabbi: Europe Must Die Before Messiah Comes
Some Rabbis equate Europe, as Christian (at least, in heritage), with Edom, the sworn enemy of Israel in the Old Testament.
This equation is applied especially to Italy and Germany.
Before the Jewish Messiah can arrive, Edom must be destroyed.
The migrant/refugee crisis is the tool to destroy Edom so that the Messiah can establish himself.
Now, one can understand Jade Helm….
Rabbi Admits Shemitah Prophecy Was False
Yet another scam artist, Jonathan Cahn, bites the dust.
For all Christians, Jesus being Messiah, is the central key issue for the faith. This is also true for the Hebrew Roots Movement who use The Hebrew Calendar as the central foundation for setting prophetic Jubilee and Sabbatical years (Shemitah). This became a major problem when Messianic Rabbi, Jonathan Cahn was confronted on one TV program, when one of his major promoters discovered that his date-setting predictions (of supposed coming calamities on America) ended up denying Jesus as the Messiah had him admit he based his book using calculations based on his own privately concocted new Hebrew Calendar, which never even existed.
Read the whole story of how Cahn’s Prophecy of a “Shemitah” judgment (7 year Biblical cycle of judgment on Israel) fell apart under a little serious questioning from another Hebrew Roots evangelist.
And yes, I know Shoebat never points out the Zionist hand in world affairs. Instead, as a converted Islamicist, he pushes the “Islamic Antichrist” line.
Oh dear.
Anti-Christs popping up everywhere…
Police State Hungary Arrives
From Politico.com:
According to a law passed by the Hungarian parliament last week and set to take effect on September 15, the Hungarian government may declare a “state of migration emergency” to cope with the thousands of refugees crossing the border. If, on average, more than 500 migrants seek asylum each day for a month, or if more than 1,600 migrants are in reception camps each day for a week, or if migrants riot or commit violent crimes anywhere in the country, a state of migration emergency can be invoked. The emergency can cover particular regions or the entire country. It would initially last for six months — and then be renewed if necessary……..
…….”Refugees’ asylum claims would be speedily processed because, under a law that came into effect on August 1, no refugee will be eligible for asylum if they have passed through a “safe country” before entering Hungary. Since Serbia and all EU states were declared safe under this law, the only way a refugee traveling by land could enter Hungary without passing through a safe state is if the refugee entered through Ukraine. And that’s not where these refugees are coming from.
Virtually every asylum application will now be denied; judges will not even get to the stage of assessing the merits of the refugees’ cases.”
……”The state of emergency scheduled for September 15 will eventually feature draconian military and police powers. Under a law working its way through parliament, a state of migration emergency will permit soldiers to be sent to guard the borders, fully armed. They will be authorized to use dogs, rubber bullets, tear gas and nets to apprehend migrants entering illegally. Deadly force can be used against the migrants if soldiers believe that their own lives are endangered. This law passed the Committee on Police and Defense on September 9 and is scheduled to pass in the parliament on September 22, taking effect immediately.”
….”To create a more permanent police state, the government has more laws waiting in the wings.Under a draft law recently discovered by napi.hu (with the text of the laws linked at 444.hu), the Hungarian government will create, starting January 1, 2016, a national database with a file on every Hungarian citizen. The Center for Facial Profile Analysis will adapt the photograph on Hungarian citizens’ national identity cards for use with facial recognition technology. Each photograph will be tagged with a “connection code” that will link the biometric bits with a particular person. While the law does not authorize this information to be linked to other files containing personal data, it would be very easy to do so. This new database will be a permanent contribution to the security landscape in Hungary.”
Of course, the author, a Princeton U. professor fails to analyze the other side – the refugee/migrant flows and the connivance of intelligence agencies from NATO countries in creating this sudden crisis.
If population flows are being used to create “color revolutions” in countries surely a country has a right to defend itself.
But the sad part is that both sides only further policies already anticipated and needed by the powers-that-be.
Thus Police State Hungary it will be.
Some Business Dealings Of Orban and Levai
Aniko Levai, portrayed as the cook-book writing conservative wife of the Hungarian leader, is also a lawyer involved in some questionable deals:
It was in 1997, that is before Viktor Orbán became prime minister, that his wife, Anikó Lévai, purchased a 5.5-acre lot in Tokaj for 100,000 forints. A couple of weeks later she and two lawyer friends of the family joined forces to form a joint venture to grow wine on a total of 48 acres of land in Tokaj. She put up this lot as her share in the company, claiming that it was worth 3 million forints. As it turned out, the learned lawyers didn’t know that according to Hungarian law you cannot use agricultural land as a proxy for cash to buy a stake in a company. I don’t remember how the problem was resolved, whether the Orbáns had to dig deep into their pockets for the 3 million forints or whether, as often happened, an “angel” helped them out.
In those days the vineyard business seemed lucrative enough. During the socialist period the once highly sought after Hungarian wines, especially from Tokaj, Eger, and the Balaton region had become debased. The big Hungarian state company was mixing wines from various small producers as well as wines from different years, and therefore for even very ordinary table wine one tried to avoid Hungarian labels. However, with the change of regime individual winemakers producing quality wines emerged, and it looked as if there would be big money in these ventures. (As it turned out there wasn’t.)
Buying land in general seemed to be a promising business in those days, and even today. Agricultural land prices are still very low but anybody with some business acumen, which both Viktor Orbán and Anikó Lévai seem to have, knows that once the restriction on foreigners buying land in Hungary is lifted, prices will go up and up. In addition to the Tokaj investment, the Orbáns also bought quite a few acres of agricultural land in the village where Orbán grew up. I had to laugh when I heard Orbán say on one of the videos available on his website that once he retires he wants to be a farmer! Somehow I don’t think that we will see Viktor Orbán sitting on a tractor any time soon, if at all. My guess is that they purchased the land for speculative purposes.”
Such are Hungary’s “Christian nationalists” – the same bunch of pseudo-Christian/anti-Christian opportunistic crony-capitalist frauds that run the show everywhere, no better, and in many cases much worse, than government bureaucrats.
But there is a definite conflict of interest if the government hands out subsidies to a company co-owned by the wife of the head of the government. Of the 570 applicants in 2001 481 received less than 10 million forints and only two received more than 40 million in national and county subsidies. The highest subsidy was 44,636,000 forints to the Royal Tokaji Borászati Kft (39 St. James Place, London) whose owner was Sir Nigel R. Wilson. The second highest (34,324,000 ft.) sum granted by the state went to the Szárhegy D?l?- Sárazsadány-Tokajhegyalja Kft. (a mouthful all right!), that is the tract of 48 acres owned by Anikó Lévai, the two lawyer friends, and by this time a well-heeled Hungarian refugee from 1956, Dezs? Kékessy. (Kékessy settled in Geneva and became a research physician and owner of at least two companies: Bio Medical SA and Bio Analitic.) The company also received another 7,151,000 ft. from the Megyei Területfejlesztési Tanács, i.e. the Land Development Council of the Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County. That county subsidy, of course, also came from taxpayer money.
I’m not going to list all the lucrative and influential positions Anikó’s partners received during the Orbán period because the list would be too long.”
The extreme anti-government position today is a thoroughly Talmudic position, advocated by the Sanhedrin and its many mouth-pieces to dissolve opposition to itself.
The Gospel at no point advocated the over- throw of governments, nor taught their unique evil.
Nor is there one word in the New Testament to any of the Roman soldiers or centurions that they should put down their swords forever.
The harshest words in the Gospel are directed at the religious leadership (the priests and the rabbis).
Ashkenazy Rabbi Behind Christian “Nationalist” Orban
Every piece of evidence that I can gather so far suggests that the clash between “Christians” and “far-right nationalists” and foreign refugees/migrants in Europe is stage-managed.
Take a look at Hungary, where the populist government of Viktor Orban has come in for a lot of flak for anti-refugee and anti-Semitic commentary.
This in variably pinned on Hungarian Christians.
Orban is a reform Calvinist, it is said.
But even so, his Christianity was merely nominal until after the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe in the 1990s, when he began voicing Christian positions, a change said to be influenced by his wife’s Roman Catholicism.
Orban’s wife is rumored to be of Jewish extraction.
There was a story (later retracted) that Orban himself is Jewish.
[Added: This Armenian paper reaffirms the story. Orban has a Jewish mother. That makes him legally Jewish and proves once again that it no conspiracy theory at all that the leading mouth-pieces of the New World Order are of ethnic Jewish descent:
Viktor Orbán heads the Nationalist Party of Hungary. His father was a Gipsy and mother was of Jewish descent. Orbán is married to Anikó Lévai.”
On a thread at a Human Biodiversity forum, Levai is cited as a text-book example of Pamirid (Iranian/Central Asian) descent and Orban himself of Iranian-Indid.
Indid would be the Gypsy side and Iranian would be the Iranian-Jewish side, perhaps.
In addition, one of Orban’s most powerful former ministers, responsible for networking in the US, is Tamas Fellegi who is Jewish and active in government propgrams opposing anti-Semitism.
Neither is Orban a nationalist of the anti-EU kind.
He is actively pursuing Hungarian entry into the European currency union. He is no Euroskeptic.
And now, following German chancellor ex (?)- communist Angela Merkel’s decision to shut off the border to Austria, Orban has declared emergency in certain parts of Hungary:
In response to Germany’s decision to reestablish border controls in order to stem the inflow of refugees, the Hungarian government has declared a state of emergency in the southern Hungarian counties of Bács-Kiskun, Békés and Csongrád, as well as in Pest county.”
What an excellent pretext the Sanhedrin’s intelligence agencies now have to create Fortress Europe and play out civilizational war through proxies in the heartland of Europe, filled with the memories and monuments of Christianity.
Let us look further at Orban, this great Hungarian “Christian,” with his “right-wing” party, Fidesz:
It turns out that the ranks of the party is drawn from Orban’s own background in the left, not from the right:
In fact, Orbán’s circle, before its sharp turn to the right in 1993 (a purely political manoeuvre), had been drawn in the 1980s from both of the two groups that are now the main opponents of his Fidesz party – first the reform communists, the predecessor of today’s Socialist Party, which founded the ‘elite colleges’ for Orbán’s generation, and later the Democratic Opposition, the predecessor of today’s liberal Alliance of Free Democrats.”
Moreover, in public perception this “nationalist Hungarian Christian”- as he is promoted in the Rothschild media – is identified with an open looting of the state on behalf of corrupt cronies that is seen as a worse and more shameless version of communist corruption:
Orbán’s government, although managing not to halt the growth, behaved vis-à-vis the economy in a plundering way that was almost far-left in character. It re-nationalised much of the economy, and siphoned off immense resources of taxpayers’ money to the private accounts of ‘friendly’ companies, thus ending any possibility for the public to exert any control or supervision; then solidified this outrageous lack of transparency by using loopholes and unconstitutionally majoritarian institutional and legislative coups.
In a word, Orbán’s rule was utterly nepotistic – and here comes his ideological innovation compared to the former communists. Yes, Orbán did all this in the name of a belated anti-communist sociological revolution. But that populism is read in Hungary (unlike in Scruton’s study room) as a return to communist ways rather than a healing of the injustice that the nomenklatura-bourgeoisie inflicted on the nation. It is understood as stealing openly, while claiming an ideological justification. Does this sound familiar?”
A little research shows that Orban’s father was actually an ardent Communist and his Catholic wife’s father was an informer for the state.
Orban himself might have been recruited as a Communist spy at one time, although he says he rejected the proposal:
In a short phone interview on Sunday afternoon, Fidesz former economic director and a long-time friend of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, Lajos Simicska told Mandiner.hu that thirty years ago Orbán told him he is “supposed to file reports” on Simicska for the secret service. Simicska (pictured right) claims that he believed Orbán (pictured left) when he told him the communist secret service was unsuccessful in recruiting him, but that he does not “believe this to be true any more.”
The media oligarch explained that he started entertaining doubts a year ago, “following the Russian-Hungarian Paks II agreement.” He added that the Russians might have extensive copies of Hungarian secret service documents containing the prime minister’s records, even if Hungarian archives could not locate them. Simicska thinks that Russian President Vladimir Putin might be using these documents to blackmail Orbán into cooperating because “publishing such information could turn this country upside down.”
and
“He recalled that during a relatively friendly conversation, his army station officer told him he had seen his file “which was already ten centimeters thick, even though I was only 22 at the time.” He said that after the 1989 regime change, he was unable to identify his folder.”
and
” In a recent interview former prime minister Miklós Németh told Index that photocopies of the shredded files might still exist in Moscow, because Soviet advisors copied most of these files before retreating from Hungary.”
This allegation has led opposition parties to ask Orban to resign, since blackmail would pose a severe security risk to the country.
Whatever records exist in Hungary are no longer accessible to the public.
In 2014, the Hungarian supreme court forced the Institute of Political History to turn over all its archives (which contained the records of the Hungarian Socialist Worker’s Party and its predecessors – trade unions, socialist and communist groups).
Even if we discount allegations of communist spying as unproven (and unprovable), the facts suggest that Orban is less a Christian nationalist and more a corrupt opportunistic populist, with some outside agenda, as noted here:
Given that political Catholicism outside Hungary moved on from this in 1945, Orbán seems be sixty-five years behind the times. Indeed, it brings to mind the old joke that the difference between liberals and the right in Hungary is that while the former haven’t realized what country they are living in, the right are not clear on which period they are in!
This raises for me two questions. Although Orbán is not unintelligent he is no political philosopher, and we really do have to ask who is influencing his agenda.”
Who?
Well, oddly, for such an “anti-Semitic Christian nationalist” – the identity he is advertising in his performance – Orban has the support of the extraordinarily corrupt Ashkenazy Chief Rabbi for Israel who lobbied for Orban to come to power :
In November 2013 Rabbi Yona Metzger was arrested in Israel on suspicion of corruption and the Magistrate’s Court ordered him to be kept in custody. According to investigators, Rabbi Metzger accepted bribes of an “unprecedented scope”; he received 2.5 million dollars over 10 years while serving as Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel. Mr. Metzger has denied all accusations.
Another suspect in the case is Haim Nissan Eisenstat, who worked as Mr. Metzger’s driver and personal assistant. He was also accused of taking bribes, fraud and money laundering and now he is the star witness against Mr. Metzger.
The investigation has lasted for two years and Attorney-General Yehuda Weinstein is ready to issue a tough indictment against Mr. Metzger. Although Rabbi Metzger’s attorneys have indicated that they are willing to accept less severe charges, the prosecutors have rejected their proposal.
As Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi maintained close relations with the Orbán Government and also a group of Hungarian Chabad emissaries. He first visited Budapest in 2003 when Chabad invited him to speak at their Yeshiva.
In 2008 Chief Rabbi Metzger met with then-opposition leader Viktor Orbán in Budapest and discussed, among other things, strategies on how to fight anti-Semitism. After Mr. Orbán’s election as Prime Minister in 2010, Rabbi Metzger frequently met with Deputy Prime Minister, Mr. Zsolt Semjén, and Budapest Mayor, Mr. István Tarlós. Mr. Metzger was also the featured speaker at the inauguration of a Chabad Synagogue in Budapest led by Rabbi Shlomo Köves. At that time Mr. Metzger met with the entire Fidesz leadership.
In a 2012 letter, Chief Rabbi Metzger thanked Prime Minister Viktor Orbán for the “magnificent relationship” that he was fostering with the Jews in Hungary. He wrote that he was praying (!) that Orbán should “continue to successfully lead” the country “with dignity, understanding and wisdom.” He added, “may it be His will that the difficult economic situation affecting Europe be put behind you rapidly, and that you will enjoy the benefit of a better and more stable economic situation, that the citizens of Hungary will all be content and at peace in your country, enjoying peace and security.”
As a response to allegations of anti-Semitism made against his government, Prime Minister Orbán quoted Rabbi Metzger’s praise in a memorable speech he gave at the World Jewish Congress Plenary Assembly in Budapest, in 2013.
Details of the criminal charges against Rabbi Metzger are not public yet and there are no specific accusations that he or his associates received bribes for “favors” from Hungarian officials. However, Israeli authorities have indicated that the Rabbi’s corrupt conduct was unprecedented and far reaching.”
