Milind Deora, a former minister in the United Progressive Alliance government, has cautioned against the possible misuse of a new and more sophisticated system of surveillance conceptualised by his government and now reportedly put on the fast track by the Narendra Modi government. Called the Central Monitoring System, it allows government agencies to bypass phone and internet service providers to directly intercept communications. In an interview to Scroll.in, Deora said that he realised the system could lead to “technically lawful but malicious” interception in the absence of a privacy law.
Currently, in India, the sanction of the union home secretary is required before an agency can tap phones or intercept communications. According to an official reply under a query under the Right to Information Act, the home secretary clears nearly 300 phone tap applications every day. This information led to a seminal study by the New Delhi-based Software Freedom Law Centre which found there was very little transparency about what the government is doing with so much of data that it collects through these 100,000 phone taps every year.
Ideally, any phone tap can lead to only one of two results. It can ether lead to conclusively establish that the person whose communications are being intercepted is guilty, as was suspected. Or, it can reveal that the suspicions were not founded and the person is not indulging in any criminal activity.
If the interception shows that the person is indeed guilty as suspected, then the person should be charged under the relevant laws and prosecuted in the courts. If the person is proved to be innocent after the lawful interception has been conducted, there is no guarantee that the material collected during the period when their phones were being tapped has been destroyed. None of the 10 authorised agencies under law has published a transparency report and even when asked for metadata about whether the law is being followed, they have withheld information.”
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NWO Stooge Modi Pushing DNA Profiling On India
[The bill was passed on August 13, 2015.]
From Wide-Awake Gentile.wordpress.com, some frightening news:
The Modi Govt is trying to push a bill called the Human DNA Profiling Bill 2015 quietly during the mansoon session of Parliament.Given the oppositions silly noise over some non issues and the media attention that gets it gets , its no surprise that the Human DNA Profiling Bill 2015 has had little if not no mainstream media attention
In all fairness it was the Globalist Manmohan Singh’s Govt which had first initiated the bill in 2007 . The bill was originally proposed in 2007 and in 2012 drafting of the bill began.The draft bill was prepared by the Department of Biotechnology. The bill proposes to form a National DNA Data Bank and a DNA Profiling Board, and use the data for various specified purposes.
The bill proposes to set up a national DNA data bank and a number of state or regional data banks that will feed into the national data pool. Every data bank will have six categories under which DNA profiles will be filed – crime scene index, suspects’ index, offenders’ index, missing persons’ index, unknown deceased persons’ index, and volunteers’ index. The DNA profiling board will have the power to include more categories. In the offenders’ index, the DNA information will be linked to the name of the person from whom it was collected. All others will be linked to a case reference number. Source Scroll in Article
Given the massive amounts of corruption in Indian Police investigations framing a person whose DNA is in the database is a piece of cake
Law and poverty expert Usha Ramanathan and Centre for Internet and Society executive director Sunil Abraham, who are members of an expert committee on DNA profiling constituted by the government, have written dissent notes against the final draft of the Human DNA Profiling Bill. Ramanathan notes that one of the biggest challenges of a DNA database is function creep – the gradual widening of the use of a technology beyond the purpose for which it was originally intended.
The CDFD ( Hyderabad-based Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics) is using the CODIS software bought from the US’s FBI and compatible with their systems
The bill does not clarify under what circumstances someone’s DNA will be collected for the database with or without consent .
While countries such as the US and the UK permit collection of DNA without consent, their laws are clear about when it can be done.
[Here, the author is being optimistic. Indeed, the constitution has become whatever anyone says it is, these days.]
Whether the Indian Constitution allows the state to take DNA without consent is something that will certainly be decided by the Courts.
The Bill does not set a limit to how long someone’s DNA will kept on record.
In the UK, DNA data of a recordable offense can be kept for only six years.
The bill even allows the creation of population statistics, identification research, parental disputes, issues relating to reproductive technologies and migration. These provisions could one day allow the government to PUSH CIVILIANS TO PROVIDE DNA DATA .
The draft Bill involves collection of “intimate body samples” of living persons from “the genital or anal area, the buttocks and also breasts in the case of a female”.
DNA swabbing in Western countries is usually done by swabbing the mouth.
The Bill has no specific statutory safeguards on how store , retrieve or who can access potentially huge database of the most private and intimate kind
The UID database already has biometric information for most Indians.
If any government in future decides to link the UID database with the DNA database , it would place in the hands of the government and its agencies all personal details about millions of citizens. Will the information be made available for research?
There is very little clarity on custody of the DNA samples collected and the data stored.
If this custody gets privatized and given the few Indian private companies with the ability to maintain such data, in a few years time American European or Israeli private companies could easily have access to this huge databank. If it somehow gets passed on to their home spy agencies the CIA and Mossad , the potential for those two agencies to use the DNA data to frame blackmail & trap thousands of innocent Indians is very high.
Sources
Indian Fake Rape Cases Soar
Where’s the international clamor about a “false rape” crisis in India?
Three days ago, the Saravanampatti police went into a tizzy as they received information that a woman was ‘raped’ by two men in a women’s hostel room in the area. The woman said she did not prefer making a complaint as it would shame her family and also threatened suicide if a complaint was filed.
But investigations have revealed that she had staged the drama as she was in love with a man since the age of 14. But her parents were against it. To put an end to her parents’ attempt to get her married to someone else, she claimed that she had been raped.”
Here are more examples of false rape accusations:
1.In 2013, out of 583 rape cases decided in Delhi courts, only 12 involved stranger rape.
More than half involved elopement and accusations by in-laws; in about a fifth, the plaintiffs turned hostile or didn’t show; and most of the rest was rape by acquaintances/neighbors, with a few by family members.
2.An alleged gang-rape in Dharmasala, widely circulated via social media, has no basis whatsoever. The alleged victim denies there was any rape and denies that the woman who spread the rumor was her sister, as she claimed.
The victim believes it was an attempt to slander her.
3. A 35 year old casual laborer in Mumbai, arrested for raping a 4-year old girl, was released after 21 months in jail, when it was found that the girl’s mother had coached her child to frame him, so that her husband would not have to repay the laborer for a loan of Rs. 400 (about $6-7).
4. A Delhi court acquitted a man charged with rape after the alleged victim married the man and it came out that the case was only filed to apply pressure on the man to marry her. The judge did not prosecute the woman to avoid destroying the marriage.
5. A 24-year-old management graduate in Delhi admitted to having filed a false rape case to pressure her live-in partner to marry her. She withdrew the case once the marriage took place.
6. A Delhi police chief stated at a conference that more than 60% of rape cases filed in the capital are false.
7. A gang of four men and a woman from the state of Haryana were arrested for conspiring to blackmail rich men whom they befriended. They extorted them with the threat of filing of rape charges.
8. More than one woman has had her father jailed on false rape charges because he would not let her continue to see her boyfriend.
9. A Delhi woman lodged a false rape case against a businessman on behalf of someone who had a score to settle with him.
10. After the Delhi gang-rape of 2013, acquittal rates shot up from 46% to 75% for the rest of the year and to 70% in 2014, implying that the greater part of cases filed were false.
11. A New Delhi outfit that counsels survivors of violence and trauma studied rape cases in which they were involved from 2003-2008. They found that almost 20% were outright false; another 25% were were motivated by hostility to the accused; another 25% were filed under pressure from family members; 15% were filed after consensual sex; and the rest defied categorization.
12. A frail 75-year-old man who had just lost his wife was jailed for 6 months for raping a 30 year-old maid, but released when the maid confessed that she had been put up to do it by a neighbor as a way of extorting him for his property.
13. A Delhi woman who had filed 11 cases of rape, stalking and other offenses was jailed for extortion and theft when one of her intended victims fought back.
14. DNA evidence and the alleged victim’s contradictory statements have led to the release of two accused rapists, a hotel-owner and his employee. The alleged victim had borrowed money from the hotel-owner and had filed the rape case against him because he’d asked for it back.
15. An Indian medical journal noted with alarm the rise of false rape cases after the Delhi gang-rape. It described the case of a nurse who claimed she’d been kidnapped from Chandigarh and gang-raped in a moving car but was found to have concocted the story to frame the husband of a woman she claims had had her arrested for allegedly injecting her with HIV.
16. A woman forced herself on her son’s 16-year-old friend after spiking his drink, video-taped the act, and black-mailed him with the threat of false-rape charges into having a relationship with her, according to charges filed by the boy. He cannot charge her with rape, because the Indian penal code does not include men among possible victims of rape.
17. A Delhi judge ordered the prosecution for perjury of a 20-year-old woman who falsely accused two men of gang-raping her, when they were documented to have been with their families.
18. Police and women’s advocates around India state that a high percentage of “rape” cases are “false promise” cases (breach-of-promise case) that are made after women have premarital sex or become pregnant before marriage, only to find that the men do not intend to marry them. The false rape charges are filed to pressure the men to marry them.
19. The 69-year-old head of a Brahmakumari ashram in Gwalior was accused of rape by a 33 year-old woman, who threatened to file a case if he did not give her 5 lakhs rupees (about $10,0000). When the man filed a false-rape case against her, it turned out that she had a history of extorting people with false rape charges and was duly arrested.
20. A woman was sentenced to 4 years in jail for a false rape case against her landlord, which she filed to avoid paying back a loan she and her husband had taken from him. The landlord spent 72 days in jail and then committed suicide, blaming his ordeal for his action.
The Kotex-Industrial Complex II
Update 3: Vikram Gandhi, Kiran’s father, also has this on his resume:
Vikram is also a member of the Bretton Woods Committee, Washington DC, which plays an important role in promoting economic growth, reducing poverty and maintaining global financial stability.”
The Bretton Woods Committee is an annual meeting of the leading figures of the financial world and the world of international policy-marking.
Gandhi is listed with his financial firm, VSG Capital Advisors.
Vikram Gandhi also leads Asha Impact, a non-profit involved in “impact investing,” which is another trendy term for investing in social uplift schemes, where there is a higher risk involved and a longer term horizon for returns.
Update 2: Kiran Gandhi’s father is Vikram Gandhi, an investment banker, whose professional background is described as follows on Wikipedia:
After a successful career in investment banking spanning more than two decades in New York and Hong Kong, he decided to return to India with the desire to actively participate in the development and growth of his country. [3] He also served as Vice-Chairman at Credit Suisse,[4] Co-Head of Global FIG at Morgan Stanley,[5] Country Head and President of Morgan Stanley India, Founding Member of Harvard University’s South Asia Initiative,[6] Co-founder of The Giving Back Foundation, Board Member at India Inclusive Innovation Fund – a US $1 billion Venture Capital Impact Investment Fund and Board of Director at Grameen Foundation appointed by Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus.[7]
He is also the member of Standing Council of experts to assess and make recommendations regarding the international competitiveness of Indian Financial Sector by Department of Finance, Ministry of Finance, Government of India.[8]
Vikram Gandhi and his wife have positioned themselves to profit from the growth in disposable income in the emerging markets.
With their clout in international financial circles, they stand positioned to influence the Indian government’s policies on international financial flows and investment.
There’s free-bleeding here, alright. But it’s not from Kiran Gandhi.
It’s from the Indian economy, the tax-payer (a small and brutalized class in India), small businessmen, and consumers, to Western investors.
“Free-bleeding” is marketing hype and just one more example of MANAGED capitalism at work.
Update 1:
Kiran Gandhi’s mother is Meera Gandhi (who is half Irish). She holds an MBA and is the CEO and founder of the Giving Back Foundation.
Private foundations have long been a favorite tool for the pursuit of long-term financial interests of families, circumventing government taxation and scrutiny.
Here are some of the charities that Gandhi’s Foundation supports:
Gandhi has supported charities with strong female leadership programs and workshops, in part because of the role models in her life: Hillary Clinton, Cherie Blair, and Gandhi’s own mother, an Irish woman living in India. These charities include the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women in the United Kingdom and the Eleanor Roosevelt Leadership Center in the United States.[5]”
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Other charities Gandhi is involved with either directly or through her Foundation include the Happy Home and School for the blind in Mumbai, the Robert F. Kennedy Centre for Justice & Human Rights, the Cambodian Landmine Relief Fund, Centrepoint, Give to Colombia and The American Friends of Prince William and Prince Harry.[9]
That is the second direct link to the British ruling family (intermarried with the Rothschilds). The first one is Prince Charles’ leadership role in Water Aid, the NGO which was instrumental in making “free tampon distribution” government policy in India.
The Giving Back Foundation lists as its partners and affiliates a powerful group of non-profits (the ones in red are those which struck me the most):
Aid for Aids International; Always Dream Foundation; Asha Dan (Mother Teresa’s homes for orphans); Asha Foundation; Asia Society; AUW (Asian University for Women Bangladesh); Birch Wathen Lenox School (Aids); Bono One/Red (Aids); Boston University (graduate grant programs for travel and work); Brain Trauma Foundation; Brown University; Cambodia Landmine Museum and Relief Fund; Cancer Patients Aid Association; Centrepoint (Friends of the Foundation of Prince William and Prince Harry);; Cherie Blair Foundation For Women; Children’s Hope India in New York City; Clinton Global Initiative; Crafts Center; CRY (children’s rights); Donna Karan’s Urban Zen (connects and collaborates in well-being, preserving cultures and inspiring changes); Eleanor Roosevelt Leadership Center (ERLC); FERI (Franklin Eleanor Roosevelt Institute; Foundation Reach and Heal Program; Global Ovarian Cancer; Grameen (microcredit financing); Habitat for Humanity (building homes for the poor); Happy Home and School for the Blind, Mumbai; Harrow School; Hema Dora; Hip Hop Youth Summit Council (bringing back literacy to young people in the Hip Hop culture); Human Rights Watch; I Create (children’s rights); Indian Merchants’ Chamber; Innocence in Danger (for abused children);; Kalashiri School of Arts; Khel Shala Punjab; Kids for Kids in Hong Kong; Kilkenny Day Care Center (Alzheimer’s Disease in Ireland); Lavelle and Co. Girls’ Mentoring;; Lighthouse For The Blind; Loomba Foundation (assisting widows); Mane America; Motor Neuron Disease Association; New York City Ballet; New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (promoting family and education); One To World (Fulbright) (bringing together diverse people); The Play Company; Pratham (program for street children in India); Resolve The National Infertility Association; RFK Center for Human Justice; Royal National Institute of the Deaf, (assisting the deaf in the UK); Same Sky (educating village children in Africa); Scenic Hudson; St. Michael’s Girls Hostel and School, Delhi; Tails of Hope (eradicating diseases affecting companion dogs); Thorntree (education for village children in Kenya); Tiger Time; Tropical Clinics, Kenya; United World Colleges/Pearson School (bringing together diverse students); Vendanta Academy in India; Versailles Foundation; Waterkeeper Alliance; The Wayuu Taya Foundation (educating indigenous tribe in Venezuela; Women’s Education Project; and The Woodstock Film Festival among others.
ORIGINAL POST
Following up on my previous post about the Menstrual Meme that’s being pushed by the alternative media, I took a look at the commercial interests behind the scenes.
Which company could be hooked up with the US government back-stage of the Menstrual Meme?
Kiran Gandhi has come out endorsing “Thinx” (which is apparently the brain-child of another Indian-American, Miki Agrawal).
That’s why Gandhi is determined to raise awareness both of period shaming and lack of access to feminine products in developing countries. She’s now partnering with Thinx, a period underwear company that helps women stay dry while on the go, and AfriPads, which makes low-cost, reusable sanitary pads out of Uganda.”
Thinx donates to Afri-Pads for each sale it makes in the US. Both are attempts to compete for the $15 billion a year female hygiene industry:
In Uganda, Canadian Paul Grinvalds and American Sophia Klumpp believed that a reusable menstrual pad could be manufactured locally. The pad could be made to last a year or more with only hand washing, and be affordable to almost all Ugandan girls and women.
Following a pilot project in early 2009, a Dutch private equity investor saw the business and social potential of the idea. The investor, along with several others, provided the necessary capital—and AFRIpads was born. A.T. Kearney has supported the startup on a pro bono basis ever since.
Today, the company operates two factories with a combined staff of 60 employees, mostly rural Ugandan women, and is in talks to ship products in bulk to major nonprofit organizations, including World Vision, War Child Holland, United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF), Rotary International and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). As AFRIpads grows, it plans to build its own distribution network and sell directly to consumers.
The demand for such a product in Africa and across the developing world is undeniable. A recent Credit Suisse economic study finds that 53 percent of the almost 700 million Indian women who earn less than $1,000 per year are likely to spend more money on menstruation hygiene products in the next 12 months, and similar spending trends are expected in China, Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
– See more at: https://www.atkearney.com/executive-agenda/full-article/-/asset_publisher/0HoTu01PO8ov/content/how-the-worlds-5-billion-low-income-consumers-decide-what-to-buy/10192?_101_INSTANCE_0HoTu01PO8ov_redirect=%2Fexecutive-agenda%3Fp_p_id%3D122_INSTANCE_jqt57fHXS44U%26p_p_lifecycle%3D0%26p_p_state%3Dnormal%26p_p_mode%3Dview%26p_p_col_id%3Dcolumn-3%26p_p_col_count%3D1%26p_r_p_564233524_resetCur%3Dtrue%26p_r_p_564233524_categoryId%3D267095#sthash.0PoXwdZM.dpuf
In addition, the “free-bleeding” movement has been pushing LunaPads, which makes reusable products for developing countries and also makes Diva Cups, which the media has been pushing through activist blogs.
When you read LunaPads’ site, you notice that Kofi Annan has endorsed them and that they work with NGO’s in dozens of developing nations:
Since its inception, in partnership with dozens of groups, individuals, and NGOs, Lunapads has helped provide over 14,000 girls and women in 17 nations with over 85,000 menstrual pads and/or menstrual underwear, giving them an immediate, essential and sustainable means to remain in school or at work. In addition to working closely with AFRIpads to support our One4Her program, we are also shareholders of AFRIpads, which has supplied over 500,000 girls and women with their reusable sanitary pad kits.
Visit our blog and read the PDFs below to learn more about the impact of out work with Pads4Girls.
UNITED GIRLS OF THE WORLD
In 2014 Pads4Girls joined United Girls of the World, a non-profit society also under Madeleine and Suzanne’s leadership. United Girls has a broader mandate, to assist in the area of critical issues affecting girls and women around the world, empowering them by providing the tools they need to develop positive self-esteem. Please visit the United Girls of the World website to learn about our other programs such as G Day for Girls.
DONATE TO PADS4GIRLS
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PADS4GIRLS DISTRIBUTION GROUPS
Pads4Girls has partnered with many different groups over the years to bring washable cloth pads to girls and women in the developing world, including:
- AFRIpads Uganda
- Children’s Future International Cambodia
- My Arms Wide Open South Africa
- Good Hope Ministry Malawi
- Haitian Support: Bodarie School Haiti
- Imagine1Day Ethiopia
- Lugari Community Center Kenya
Mariposa DR Dominican Republic
- Midwives for Haiti
- Pads for Prisons Project Sudan
- Passion Foundation International
- Days for Girls International
- Rabondo Community Project Kenya
- Sexual Rights Center Zimbabwe
- Sister Jackie’s House of Love Jamaica
OTHER GROUPS & RESOURCES
- Sustainable Health Enterprises Rwanda
- Huru International Kenya
- Days for Girls International
- Eco Femme India
- GOONJ India
So a whole network of influential and well-funded NGO’s distributing free reusable tampons in developing countries is behind the “Menstrual Meme”.
As non-profits, these NGOs encourage the public to donate to what they’re doing, the donations being tax-exempt.
At the same time, at least one of them – AfriPads, which calls itself a “social business’ – has “shareholders” (people invested in the outfit) who belong to the company (LunaPads) that is selling products at a profit in the West.
Behind AfriPads are wealthy Dutch investors hoping for long-term returns.
Thus the “non-profit,” “social-service” angle acts as an excellent marketing tool for a Western for-profit company that is competing in the market in Asia and Africa, which is why Kiran Gandhi’s face is on the campaign.
Now, why not, if there is such a market?
Nothing wrong, if these tampon companies were really competing, without the support of a manipulative, possibly intelligence-run campaign, demanding government subsidies and privileged treatment in the Western and Indian market.
How privileged?
Consider that LunaPads claims to be a private outfit, but it’s tied to heavily-subsidized NGO’s and social businesses that are using government and the media to push its interests.
At the same time, the government has been taxing their private competitors (Always and Kotex, for example), as non-essential.
Note: Earlier this year, after public pressure, the UK and Canadian governments both lifted the tax on sanitary products (hitherto described as “luxury” goods).
Now these two companies (Always and Kotex) may indeed be making sub-standard products, but that is for the market to decide. The larger companies themselves, J&J in India, for instance, have benefited from private-public partnerships. The newer “green” companies are trying to get in, also in partnership with the governments, NGO’s, and international finance.
There’s also another, bigger problem.
On the other side of the equation, local Indian producers, like Arunachal Muruganathan, who put years into developing a cost-effective sanitary napkin that he sells in India, face subsidized competition from abroad and neglect from their own governments:
Muruganantham seemed set for fame and fortune, but he was not interested in profit. “Imagine, I got patent rights to the only machine in the world to make low-cost sanitary napkins – a hot-cake product,” he says. “Anyone with an MBA would immediately accumulate the maximum money. But I did not want to. Why? Because from childhood I know no human being died because of poverty – everything happens because of ignorance.”
He believes that big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas he prefers the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. “A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it,” he says.”
But, it seems when the Indian government, which, like Western governments, is now in the feminine hygiene business, set out to look for a partner, they didn’t pick Muruganantham, even though he won national recognition from the IIT’s (the prestigious technology institutes of the public sector) and from the government itself.
Instead, the Indian government picked partners from big business:
According to P C Vinoj Kumar, a journalist who was until recently working for Tehelka, the two major players in the Indian sanitary napkins market are P&G (who own the Whisper brand) and Johnson & Johnson (who own the Stayfree & Carefree brands). He says that the Government will most likely strike a public private partnership with them or a third player, Kimberly Clark Lever (a JV between Kimberly Clark & Unilever).
“What really ticked me off was when I heard that the Government was providing these napkins at a highly subsidized rate. This would mean that it would buy those napkins at a higher cost from elsewhere. What is the need of that, when my technology provides with a similar product at a cheaper price and at the same time generates a lot of rural employment,” says Muruganatham. Muruganatham laments that the newly announced central government scheme apart from involving a lot of corruption, will effectively kill an innovation that has the potential of providing employment to millions of Indians, especially women.”
How did that happen?
As always, the finger-prints of the Western ruling class can be spotted in the whole business.
First came the international intervention, with a foreign NGO’s pronouncement:
The surveys conducted by Unicef with the help of Nielsen India Private Limited and social organisations Vatsalya and Water Aid revealed that over 85% girls used old tattered clothes during menstruation. Almost half of the girls did not even wash the old cloth before using it, while an equal number re-used the cloth several times.”
Checking out Water Aid’s Wikipedia page, I find that it was set up as a charitable trust by none other than the UK’s “water industry.”
The charitable trust structure is the usual – and legal – method whereby private interests can protect themselves from taxation.
Water Aid’s creation was in response to the UN’s Drinking Water & Sanitation decade (1981-1990) and its first president was Prince Charles, from the ruling Windsor family that is intermarried with the Rothschilds.
Water-Aid could not be any more obviously a face of the global world order.
And it is Water-Aid that has promoted the notion that the Indian government should have a program for free tampons.
That seems to explain why the Indian government didn’t partner with a local actor.
[Note: I don’t believe the government should be in the business of feminine hygiene in the first place.]
Likewise, in Africa, the Western NGOs’ are competing against local small businesses that are supplying the market, as well as against the big foreign brands, on which wealthier women have come to depend:
Such projects haven’t been snag-free: Komera found Rwandan women were skeptical about the quality of cheap, locally-produced pads which didn’t look much like the imported brands they knew. Laadli has been excluded from the Indian government’s subsidised pads programme..
The Kotex-Industrial Complex: Another Indian Stooge
UPDATE 1
My apologies. I included a link from Reason I thought I’d deleted and which I didn’t know had a nasty image. If there are any disturbing images, please let me know and I will delete those too.
ORIGINAL POST
One more case of FeminismMakesYouAnIdiot….and why, pray tell, are all the idiots these days Indians?
There was Belle Knox, the disturbed Indo-American girl who claimed that being urinated on, gang-sodomized and repeatedly hit on video-tape was “her joy.”
Any sensible adult would have yanked her out of college, put a paper-bag over her head, and forced her into as much therapy as 24 hours will hold. They would have then sued her pimp-agent into oblivion and slapped lawsuits galore on any site that republished her pictures.
But that’s just me.
[Behind the pseudo-activist jargon, Belle Knox was in fact advertising under-age/college porn. Given that there is a growing porn market in India, driven by incessant Western advertising through the internet, putting an Indian face on the business, can be seen as a marketing gimmick.]
Now, The Cut has a piece on what comes after “slut-walking” and “topless protests.”
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It’s “free-bleeding” (menstruating publicly, without a tampon), which is a strike against the “objectification of women,” according to Ms. Socrates, the bleeder-in-residence.
Yes, I see how that goes.
Turn your body parts and emissions into a public spectacle a ping-pong bar would reject and use Feminism101 as an excuse.
I think not.
It turns out, as the Spectator points out, that “free-bleeding” is nothing more than a satirical prank that feminists swallowed naively:
So in 2014 — inspired by some crazy idea they’d read somewhere on the internet — the pranksters decided to fake an even more ludicrous trend designed to discredit the radical feminist movement. ‘What is free bleeding? It consists of us womyn bleeding with no restriction … Being able to menstruate is something that is a [sic] undeniably female characteristic. How DARE they try and oppress it,’ read their working notes.
A few helpful tweets later from fake Twitter accounts and ‘free bleeding’ had become an urgent new cause of radical feminism. Eventually word got out among some women’s interest websites that they’d all been had: ‘Free bleeding is not a thing,’ warned one. But it appears the memo didn’t get through to everyone. Hence Kiran Gandhi’s marathon protest.”
But was this really just a joke?
The anonymous pranksters belong to an Internet site called 4Chan that many suspect has attracted the attention of the intelligence agencies because it was frequented at one time by pedophiles.
It wouldn’t be a stretch to conjecture that the intelligence agencies floated the meme themselves.
Just as the CIA-funded PussyRiot is really about advertising sexual tourism while pretending to protest against it, this kind of activism is also only a form of advertising.
Of what?
Well take a look (well, actually, don’t…I won’t link, lest I contribute to the dissemination of this nonsense).
Here are activists menstruating and defecating in public.
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Forget the politically correct explanation of what they are “activisting” about.
The medium is the message, remember.
These girls aren’t selling anything else except their bodies and their bodily fluids.
Menstruating in public has suddenly become a trend in the past year or so.
Check it out.
Here’s Rosie O’Donnell threatening to “free-bleed” on Trump’s face.
And here’s the entirely manufactured Donald Trump menstrual-blood libel.
And CNN had an Indian girl write this long piece admonishing Indian women not to adhere to taboos against menstruating in a temple or in the kitchen.
And here’s a whole bunch of free-bleeding, free-pissing, free-sticking-the-cross-into-my-body-feminists who give a new meaning to the term badass...
[I didn’t insert the link, because obviously the NWO wants us all to become implicated in this pornography and sear our minds, memories, and imagination.]
It’s a meme, I tell you.
I’ll bet you, the porn industry is developing a market for this kind of thing to shore up its declining revenues.
[Added: Actually, Jessica Valenti has already told us what the menstrual meme is at least partly about: It’s about making sanitary products freely available all the time to all women – that is, making tax-payers pay for everyone’s tampons.
And this is part of a larger notion that companies like Kotex and Always (two of the largest brands) should be boycotted, because their products raise the risk of toxic-shock syndrome.
To be honest, as a tax-payer, I really wouldn’t mind paying for poor women and girls to get tampons,
But knowing that tax-money rarely goes where it’s meant and knowing that we’re already over-taxed and knowing that the introduction of the IRS was the beginning of the surveillance state, and that taxation itself is a form of expropriation by the state, I’d much prefer to donate to organizations that directly fund sanitary products for the poor.
No need for a government hand-out or a government campaign on behalf of alternative tampons – which is what this whole absurd “free-bleeding” meme sounds like. I have nothing against alternatives to the tampon giants. I do have a problems with slick campaigns hood-winking the public.]
Slap an Asian or Indian girl’s face on it, and it also serves the double purpose of branding immigrant women as repulsive, air-headed social justice feminazis.
And that helps polarize public debate along racial lines and fuels the sex-war.
Which keeps us all looking in every direction except the one that counts – in the direction of the NWO puppeteers.
Is Jehovah Satan?
Is Jehovah Satan?
That was what many Gnostics, both medieval and modern, believed.
Gnosticism is the idea that liberation from the world of matter (believed to be sinful) is available to someone who cultivates esoteric wisdom that the masses cannot easily grasp.
The particular form of gnosis might vary – it might involve chanting mantras, or contemplating mystical visions, or inquiring into the nature of the self. The main notion is that liberation from the world of the senses requires some kind of knowledge inaccessible to the hoi polloi.
The early Gnostics were antagonistic to the early Christians. They thought the religion was simple-minded and ant-intellectual.
Many leading Gnostics were part of the Jewish emigre population in Alexandria, one of the great centers of learning in antiquity.
This was the Syro-Egyptian Gnostic school.
There was also a Persian school, but that was regarded as a distinct religion – Manicheanism.
The Jewish-Christian conflict of those days was reflected in the anti-Gnostic polemics of Church leaders and the Gnostics have had a bad reputation among Christians ever since, sometimes unfairly.
Many beliefs that Christians now regard as heretical, such as, Arianism – the notion that Jesus is not divine, but only a man – began with the Gnostics.
But Gnosticism is increasingly understood to be rooted not in heretical Christianity but in heretical Judaism.
One of the most typical of the Gnostic beliefs was that from the original creator of the universe who is an impersonal monad, emanations issued, each more remote from divinity than the one before.
Among the lowest of these divine emanations was a demiurge or a lesser/false god, to whom the creation of the physical world is attributed.
The demiurge was seen as imperfect, even evil.
Yaldabaoth, Yahweh in the Bible, Satan, Ahriman (in the Persian tradition) were all regarded as demiurges.
It is this conflation of Satan and Yahweh among the Alexandrian gnostics that was revived in the 18th century by William Blake, the English poet, that underlies the tension of such famous lines as
Tyger, tyger, burning bright
In the forests of the night
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?”
Blake’s Tiger suggests a darker deity than the benign Father of orthodox Christian belief.
So, when you see websites springing up all over the Internet, equating Yahweh with Satan, it’s a continuation of this ancient Gnostic and neo-Gnostic error.
Error, because Yahweh is not Satan.
And Satan is not the same as Saturn, despite the visual resemblance of the two words.
Saturn is an Indo-European term.
Satan is Semitic (HaSatan in Hebrew) and it is not a proper but a common noun. It should be translated “the adversary.” From its root (S-T-N), the Arabs get Shai-tan.
A closer equivalent to Satan in the West is the Egyptian Set, the murderous brother of Osiris.
Although at one period considered a “good” God, Set was later seen as evil, perhaps by association with the Semitic Hyksos rulers of Egypt in the early part of the 2nd millenium before Christ.
The Hyksos linked Set with the Phoenician god, Baal.
[Baal only means “lord” and was used to denote a variety of deities. There was Baal Hadad and there was Baal Hamon, to whom child sacrifices were offered.]
Because Baal is also known as El (Lord, singular), and the term Elohim (plural) is often used to refer to God in the Old Testament, the Gnostics in turn equated Baal with Yahweh.
The Gnostic equation was:
JEHOVAH = BAAL =JUPITER = SATURN = SATAN
It ought to have read:
SET = BAAL(ZEBUB) = SATAN
AIDS-Fort Detrick Theory Is KGB, Stasi Disinfo
Hunting around to find out more about the Alan Cantwell piece about AIDS I posted earlier, which one reader suggested was disinformation, I came across this announcement from the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Studies.
It doesn’t mention the Cantwell theory, but takes aim at another widely-circulated conspiracy theory about AIDS, that it came out of bio-weapons research at Fort Detrick:
Tuesday, 28 October, 2014,
Event description: In the second half of the 1980s, the KGB conducted an international disinformation campaign accusing the US of having artificially constructed the virus that causes AIDS at the Pentagon’s laboratory for biological warfare in Fort Detrick, Maryland. On the basis of his research with scholar Christopher Nehring in the archives of the former communist secret police in Bulgaria, Germany, and the Czech Republic, Douglas Selvage will present new details about the disinformation campaign and the key supporting role played by the KGB’s “fraternal organ,” the East German Ministry of State Security, or Stasi. Among the findings: The free media in West Germany played a central, if unwitting role, as multipliers of the KGB’s disinformation thesis; a cycle of misinformation and disinformation arose between conspiracy theorists in the US and the Soviet bloc’s secret police; and the Fort Detrick-thesis continues to circulate around the globe yet today with dire political and medical consequences. “
Here is a bit about Douglas Selvage himself. I am not sure how far one can trust state-employed historians.
Douglas Selvage is currently Project Director in the Education and Research Division of the BStU (Federal Commission for the Records of the State Security Service of the former German Democratic Republic) in Berlin for the project “International Cooperation of the East European Security Services.” Before he joined the BStU in 2008, he served as a historian in the U.S. Department of State and as an assistant professor of history at the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach. He has published widely on German-Polish relations during the Cold War, on the Helsinki Process, U.S. foreign policy, and the history of the Soviet bloc. “
Jesus666 Site
Yet another anti-Christian propaganda site replete with fallacious etymologies and the old claim that Jesus (the Greek version of Yehoshuah) is really Gaze-at-Zeus and pagan. It’s not about accepting the redemptive work of Jesus; no, apparently, if you call God Yahweh, rather than Yeh-weh, you are on the road to perdition.
Google Jesus666 and see how many sites pop up.
This is all rather typical Judaicizing anti-Christ propaganda, common in Messianic and Hebrew Roots circles.
If you cross the bridge, it doesn’t matter what you call it. You’ll reach the other side.
If you don’t cross the bridge, it doesn’t matter what you call it, you’ll stay where you are.
Cross the bridge.
Strong’s Concordance
The best way to study the Bible at first hand is to use the King James Version (which is not without its flaws) in conjunction with Strong’s Concordance, which gives the Greek and Hebrew meanings relevant to the text.
(Note: I first linked by mistake to something called Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance, which at first glance, seems like a highly politicized version of the famous resource. It dispensed the familiar end-times narrative of political Zionism. Stick with the original Strong’s).
The Old Testament texts that Jesus read were in Greek (in the supranational Koine form), because the Greek version (Septuagint or LXX) was the most authoritative one at the time.
Here is an online version of the Septuagint with the Greek text next to the English.
It was called the Septuagint because, at least anecdotally, 70 (or 72) of the most important Hebrew scholars compiled it.
The Septuagint predates Jesus by a couple of centuries and was widely used in Alexandria in Egypt, where there was a very large Jewish diaspora.
This was the text used by the Church fathers when Christian doctrine was formulated in the first few centuries of the millenium.
The other authoritative Old Testament text, the Masora, was compiled over several centuries by Rabbinical scholars (Masoretes) between the 6th century and 10th century AD (that is, almost a 1000 years after the Septuagint).
It was a product of Rabbinical schools that were actively attacking and responding to Christianity and it should be understood in that light.
[Note: It isn’t necessary to ascribe a malicious motive to the Masoretes, although many Christian scholars do. From the Masoretes’ point of view, the Christians were simply reading things into the Hebrew text and they were taking a more neutral position. Both sides probably had some valid points.]
The Masoretic texts are the Old Testament texts used in the Talmud, which is the Rabbinical commentary on the Bible.
The Talmud, not the Torah, is the true core of modern Judaism.
Since the Talmud in both its Palestinian and its more famous Babylonian version were written down only in 200 AD (Mishnah) and 500 AD (Gemarah), the written records of modern Rabbinical (Talmudic) Judaism post-date those of Christianity.
Even the oral traditions of modern Judaism stem only from the Babylonian captivity, around the 6th century BC.
Consider that the earliest manuscript of the Talmud is the 1342 AD Munich Talmud.
By contrast, the first full manuscript of the New Testament, the Codex Sinaiticus, dates back to the middle of the 4th century AD or around 350 AD (a thousand years earlier).
In addition, there are fragments of the New Testament that go back much earlier, to the second half of the 1st century AD.
Altogether, there are over 25,000 early copies or fragments of the New Testament, not including quotations by the Church Father.
The New Testament is the most well preserved and well-documented piece of writing from antiquity.
Even so, understanding how the original Hebrew or Greek words have been translated into English is essential to understanding how meanings have been changed, either accidentally or intentionally.
In that respect, Strong’s Concordance is an invaluable resource.
Have I Become Your Enemy?
“Have I become your enemy because I tell you the truth?”
St. Paul’s Letter to the Galatians, 4:16