I love technology, when it works. When it doesn't, I am ready to rip my hair, what little I have, out. Yesterday, I spent a great deal of time waiting for Internet Explorer to decide to work. MSN kept drifting away and I gave up on google long ago. It is frustrating and tiresome.
Then, we have the issue of ads. You notice that I have none on this site (okay, a very few mention my books. By the way, they are available on Kindle, but the ads are short and to the point and easy to skip). My issue is with pop ups. I can be in the middle of something and an ad for some product I will never buy, shows up. Or, ads are interspersed within the text that completely disrupt the flow.
Pictures are another issue. I got over needing my reading accimpoanied by pictures when I left 2nd grade
Then, we have websites that are uselessly old. I get all excited sometimes, when I find just what I want, only to discover that they have not been updated for 10 years.
I also find sites that have nothing to do with the highlight on the search engine. For example, I type in 'golf history' and click on a site that says it has the definitive history of the game, It does not. Instead, it is selling condos on golf courses. Then of course, thanks to the nice folks at google, I get bombarded with ads for condos.
I know that people have to make money and I know that they don't always have time to keep things completely up to dare, but really, we can do better. Keep it up and it will grow so tiresome that people will stop using it and they will certainly stop paying attention to the ads. The users need to get a grip or the big tech people will. Failing that, the Government will have to start regulating and no sane person wants that.
Showing posts with label Vatican. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vatican. Show all posts
Friday, June 15, 2018
Thursday, May 10, 2018
Arrogance that Never Sleeps
\I mentioned John Kerry the other day, something I had hoped to never do, but, alas, duty calls. Old John, along with good old Barak Obama negotiated the absolute worst deal the Us has ever made, the Iran nuclear deal. Remember, we gave them an enormous sum of cash and they promised to be nice. Folks, this was worse deal than NAFTA and that was dreadful.
President Trump is well on the way to dumping the whole deal but, lo and behold, there in the background is Kerry, trying to keep the deal alive This is an all time high when it comes to arrogance. I mean, this even tops Hillary's ' deplorable' comment. Luckily, Old John has been talking, it seems, to some high placed Iranians and never bothered to register as a foreign agent. Well, this is what they went after Manafort for, so lets see of anyone goes after Kerry. These people make me ill
PS Since writing this, Trump did pull out of the Iran deal. Also, hats off to them for getting rgosw folks out of N. Kprea.
President Trump is well on the way to dumping the whole deal but, lo and behold, there in the background is Kerry, trying to keep the deal alive This is an all time high when it comes to arrogance. I mean, this even tops Hillary's ' deplorable' comment. Luckily, Old John has been talking, it seems, to some high placed Iranians and never bothered to register as a foreign agent. Well, this is what they went after Manafort for, so lets see of anyone goes after Kerry. These people make me ill
PS Since writing this, Trump did pull out of the Iran deal. Also, hats off to them for getting rgosw folks out of N. Kprea.
Monday, November 20, 2017
A ReasonablyCalm Week.
The past week has been relatively normal, which is far from normal.
Sire, Congress is fussing over their rather stupid tax bill and the military is boasting of their victories over Isis. Rocket Man is issuing stern warnings and the Russian-Republican0-Demicratic scandals are being tossed around and sex abuse charges are flying all over the land. All that is, oddly enough, just business as usual in these weird times. So, on the whole, it was a pretty boring week in the news.
There is one thing bugging me, Today I saw that Charlie Manson died and so did the fine Country singer Mel Tillis. Of course, Manson is getting more attention. I guess that was to be expected, but it bothers me that a mass murderer gets more attention than a nice, truly talented man.
Still, news wise, it was a pretty boring week. I have frown to like boring,
Sire, Congress is fussing over their rather stupid tax bill and the military is boasting of their victories over Isis. Rocket Man is issuing stern warnings and the Russian-Republican0-Demicratic scandals are being tossed around and sex abuse charges are flying all over the land. All that is, oddly enough, just business as usual in these weird times. So, on the whole, it was a pretty boring week in the news.
There is one thing bugging me, Today I saw that Charlie Manson died and so did the fine Country singer Mel Tillis. Of course, Manson is getting more attention. I guess that was to be expected, but it bothers me that a mass murderer gets more attention than a nice, truly talented man.
Still, news wise, it was a pretty boring week. I have frown to like boring,
Thursday, August 18, 2016
America and the Powers That Be, Royalty
We in America seldom, for obvious reasons, give much thought to the World's royal families, unless one of Britain's Royals is misbehaving, marrying, or giving birth. The whole royalty shtick seems to us a silly leftover from days gone by.
But, much of the rest of the World still has royal families and they do have power, to varying degrees. In many Middle Eastern countries, the royals still wield incredible power and control ridiculous sums of money. In countries such as Thailand, the royal family is vastly wealthy and fairly powerful. However, I wish to speak of Europe's royalty.
We tend to think that in Europe, the Royal Houses are quaint and charming, but not really in control of much. That is not exactly true. Yes, much of the governing power in the hand of various ruling bodies, but it is important to realize that the Royal families are incredibly wealth, controlling many billions of dollars and substantial amounts of property.
Royal families are still recognized in Lichtenstein, Luxemburg, Spain, Monaco, England, the Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and, in an odd way, the Vatican. Now, their powers as rulers are limited, to varying degrees, but, trust me. Any groups controlling vast sums of money, have vast amounts of power.
Also, in countries such as Italy and Russia and Germany, where royal families have no say in government, they do still have money and land.
Why is all this important? Well, it seems that throughout modern history, the various royal families have tried and are still trying to run the World. They work behind the scenes, through banks and intelligence groups and, surprisingly often, through organized crime. Look into topics like the Sovereign Knights of Malta and Le Circle (again I highly recommend you check out VYSOP for some well researched history). Very often these families have been in league with the Vatican, the Mafia, various occult groups and, out and out fascists.
Their goal, synarchy, the re-establishment of the aristocracy as rulers. Only they intend to do so in the context of a unified Europe, united but under local control by the different royal houses. From there, they seem to believe that they will branch out and convince the rest of the World that, since they are rich and royal, God must want them as rulers and thus unite the World under their thumb.
Insane? Of course, but being rich and powerful does not necessarily insure sanity.
Remember, these Houses are working with the Church, organized crime, fascists, banks and certain industrialists, for now. These groups have different goals but see the wisdom of pulling together at times. Next post, the banks.
But, much of the rest of the World still has royal families and they do have power, to varying degrees. In many Middle Eastern countries, the royals still wield incredible power and control ridiculous sums of money. In countries such as Thailand, the royal family is vastly wealthy and fairly powerful. However, I wish to speak of Europe's royalty.
We tend to think that in Europe, the Royal Houses are quaint and charming, but not really in control of much. That is not exactly true. Yes, much of the governing power in the hand of various ruling bodies, but it is important to realize that the Royal families are incredibly wealth, controlling many billions of dollars and substantial amounts of property.
Royal families are still recognized in Lichtenstein, Luxemburg, Spain, Monaco, England, the Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and, in an odd way, the Vatican. Now, their powers as rulers are limited, to varying degrees, but, trust me. Any groups controlling vast sums of money, have vast amounts of power.
Also, in countries such as Italy and Russia and Germany, where royal families have no say in government, they do still have money and land.
Why is all this important? Well, it seems that throughout modern history, the various royal families have tried and are still trying to run the World. They work behind the scenes, through banks and intelligence groups and, surprisingly often, through organized crime. Look into topics like the Sovereign Knights of Malta and Le Circle (again I highly recommend you check out VYSOP for some well researched history). Very often these families have been in league with the Vatican, the Mafia, various occult groups and, out and out fascists.
Their goal, synarchy, the re-establishment of the aristocracy as rulers. Only they intend to do so in the context of a unified Europe, united but under local control by the different royal houses. From there, they seem to believe that they will branch out and convince the rest of the World that, since they are rich and royal, God must want them as rulers and thus unite the World under their thumb.
Insane? Of course, but being rich and powerful does not necessarily insure sanity.
Remember, these Houses are working with the Church, organized crime, fascists, banks and certain industrialists, for now. These groups have different goals but see the wisdom of pulling together at times. Next post, the banks.
Monday, August 15, 2016
America and the Powers That Be, Fascism
First, a definition. Fascism is a system of government in which the State and Corporations cooperate to run the Country. Mussolini said that a better name would be Corporatism. If this sounds like what is happening now in America, congratulations, you are very perceptive.
I suppose you could have a benevolent fascism, with the Leaders running the economy, seeing to the welfare of citizens and, other than that, leaving people to run their own lives. But, people being people, that just does not happen. Those in power want more power, partly out of fear of losing control and partly because they just love wielding power. These people are mentally ill.
Before WW2, America, leaders and citizens alike, were rather fond of Fascism. Hitler was admired and groups like the Silver Shirts had substantial memberships. Much of Europe was taken with that form of government. Oddly, people like to be controlled. I guess they have trouble dealing with the fact that the Universe is chaotic and life uncertain. Anyway, Adolph overstepped his bounds and WW2 broke out.
Now, Germany lost but, what we all failed to grasp is that Fascism did not lose and maintained many followers after the war, too many groups to go into here. The all were fanatically anti-Communist and, with some prodding and support from American and British intelligence. Operation Gladio was formed. The groups involved were supposed to be ready to repel any Soviet action but, they went much farther,
Anytime a left wing group, even mildly left wing, started gaining popular support, the fascists infiltrated the group, committed some act of depraved violence and then blamed the left wing group, costing them power. America did the same thing domestically; just look up COINTELPRO and Operation Chaos.
These groups funded themselves by drug smuggling and arms sales and, thus, interacted with the Mafia. Again, Americans need not feel smug. Just look up Project Mongoose and Operation Midnight Climax.
All of the money had to be laundered and the Vatican Bank was used. This was set up by the fascist led, quasi Masonic Lodge, P2, Propaganda Due, which had a number of priests who were members, despite the Vatican ban on their joining secret societies.
Currently, with their immigration crisis still unfolding, fascist groups in Europe are gaining a disturbing amount of power. Do not rest easy, America. We still have the Klan, the American Nazi Party and countless other groups of lunatics hanging around. I am full expecting one, or all of them, to rear their ugly little heads before long.
You notice how the fascists, the Mafia, and the Vatican tie together. Many groups are involved in the idea of world unification/domination. They play nice together at times and cut each other's throats at other times. Next post, we add another player, the old European aristocracy.
I suppose you could have a benevolent fascism, with the Leaders running the economy, seeing to the welfare of citizens and, other than that, leaving people to run their own lives. But, people being people, that just does not happen. Those in power want more power, partly out of fear of losing control and partly because they just love wielding power. These people are mentally ill.
Before WW2, America, leaders and citizens alike, were rather fond of Fascism. Hitler was admired and groups like the Silver Shirts had substantial memberships. Much of Europe was taken with that form of government. Oddly, people like to be controlled. I guess they have trouble dealing with the fact that the Universe is chaotic and life uncertain. Anyway, Adolph overstepped his bounds and WW2 broke out.
Now, Germany lost but, what we all failed to grasp is that Fascism did not lose and maintained many followers after the war, too many groups to go into here. The all were fanatically anti-Communist and, with some prodding and support from American and British intelligence. Operation Gladio was formed. The groups involved were supposed to be ready to repel any Soviet action but, they went much farther,
Anytime a left wing group, even mildly left wing, started gaining popular support, the fascists infiltrated the group, committed some act of depraved violence and then blamed the left wing group, costing them power. America did the same thing domestically; just look up COINTELPRO and Operation Chaos.
These groups funded themselves by drug smuggling and arms sales and, thus, interacted with the Mafia. Again, Americans need not feel smug. Just look up Project Mongoose and Operation Midnight Climax.
All of the money had to be laundered and the Vatican Bank was used. This was set up by the fascist led, quasi Masonic Lodge, P2, Propaganda Due, which had a number of priests who were members, despite the Vatican ban on their joining secret societies.
Currently, with their immigration crisis still unfolding, fascist groups in Europe are gaining a disturbing amount of power. Do not rest easy, America. We still have the Klan, the American Nazi Party and countless other groups of lunatics hanging around. I am full expecting one, or all of them, to rear their ugly little heads before long.
You notice how the fascists, the Mafia, and the Vatican tie together. Many groups are involved in the idea of world unification/domination. They play nice together at times and cut each other's throats at other times. Next post, we add another player, the old European aristocracy.
Thursday, August 11, 2016
America and the Powers That Be, the Vatican
Before I start this, let me clearly say that I am not some backwoods fundamentalist railing against Catholicism. This post deals with the power structure of the Vatican itself.
For centuries now, the Vatican has longed for a return to the days of the Holy Roman Empire. Some want this because they want to see Christianity united and, eventually, leading the world. Some want the power and the wealth. Some, I suppose, want both.
Of course, as historians love to point out, it was neither Holy, Roman, or an Empire, but it amassed an incredible amount of wealth and wielded entirely too much power. As it fell apart, many in the Church were loathe to admit that such a thing could happen and began to jealously guard what power they had left, all the while holding fiercely to all that wealth. This led them to fall in with some very unpleasant people and groups.
The church, circa WW2, was fairly complacent in the face of fascism, making deals with Mussolini, and Hitler, uttering only feeble protests against the Holocaust, and, after the fighting, running rat lines that helped many notoriously evil Nazis escape justice. And, yes, this did increase the Vatican wealth.
People being people, some Church officials got their hands into the Vatican bank and caused all sorts of mischief. Ultimately they were dealing with the Mafia in various guns and drug schemes and with the remnants, rather sizable and powerful remnants, of Europe's fascist community, through the quasi Masonic Lodge, P2. Much money was stolen and much havoc reached. We will talk a bit more about this in the next post.
One way we know of the Vatican's continued lust for power is through a very shadowy group, Opus Dei. It is a shame that Dan Brown in The DaVinci Code painted them as a sort of cartoonish group, sort of like James Bond's enemies SMERSH. They are not cartoonish. Instead they are a repressive an deadly cult within the church wielding great power. They were doted on by Popes, John Paul II and Benedict. They profess to be the saviors of the traditional Church but, the more you find out about them, which is difficult to do (I strongly recommend a website called VYSUP for some very well researched info), the more it seems that their conservatism is more toward the wealth and power than any doctrinal issues.
Next post we will get into the weird world of fascism but first, let me mention another group within the Church that has deep ties to the fascist network, The Sovereign Knights of Malta. With roots going back to the Crusades and the Knights Hospitiller, they have a curiously large number of members who have held high, extremely high, positions in American politics, the American Military, and, frighteningly enough, the American Intelligence organizations. Odder still is the deep ties these individuals had to groups often linked to the JFK assassination (however, I am not about to start on that topic). Linked to the SKOM is any even stranger group, the Sovereign Knights of St. John of Jerusalem or the Shikshinny Knights, the difference being that the latter claim succession through the
Russian Church, I point this out so you can see how interlinked so many of these groups are, Nothing on Earth happens in isolation and the PTB are a massively confusing group with fingers in every pie imaginable. Next post I will try to untie a few more of the knots.
For centuries now, the Vatican has longed for a return to the days of the Holy Roman Empire. Some want this because they want to see Christianity united and, eventually, leading the world. Some want the power and the wealth. Some, I suppose, want both.
Of course, as historians love to point out, it was neither Holy, Roman, or an Empire, but it amassed an incredible amount of wealth and wielded entirely too much power. As it fell apart, many in the Church were loathe to admit that such a thing could happen and began to jealously guard what power they had left, all the while holding fiercely to all that wealth. This led them to fall in with some very unpleasant people and groups.
The church, circa WW2, was fairly complacent in the face of fascism, making deals with Mussolini, and Hitler, uttering only feeble protests against the Holocaust, and, after the fighting, running rat lines that helped many notoriously evil Nazis escape justice. And, yes, this did increase the Vatican wealth.
People being people, some Church officials got their hands into the Vatican bank and caused all sorts of mischief. Ultimately they were dealing with the Mafia in various guns and drug schemes and with the remnants, rather sizable and powerful remnants, of Europe's fascist community, through the quasi Masonic Lodge, P2. Much money was stolen and much havoc reached. We will talk a bit more about this in the next post.
One way we know of the Vatican's continued lust for power is through a very shadowy group, Opus Dei. It is a shame that Dan Brown in The DaVinci Code painted them as a sort of cartoonish group, sort of like James Bond's enemies SMERSH. They are not cartoonish. Instead they are a repressive an deadly cult within the church wielding great power. They were doted on by Popes, John Paul II and Benedict. They profess to be the saviors of the traditional Church but, the more you find out about them, which is difficult to do (I strongly recommend a website called VYSUP for some very well researched info), the more it seems that their conservatism is more toward the wealth and power than any doctrinal issues.
Next post we will get into the weird world of fascism but first, let me mention another group within the Church that has deep ties to the fascist network, The Sovereign Knights of Malta. With roots going back to the Crusades and the Knights Hospitiller, they have a curiously large number of members who have held high, extremely high, positions in American politics, the American Military, and, frighteningly enough, the American Intelligence organizations. Odder still is the deep ties these individuals had to groups often linked to the JFK assassination (however, I am not about to start on that topic). Linked to the SKOM is any even stranger group, the Sovereign Knights of St. John of Jerusalem or the Shikshinny Knights, the difference being that the latter claim succession through the
Russian Church, I point this out so you can see how interlinked so many of these groups are, Nothing on Earth happens in isolation and the PTB are a massively confusing group with fingers in every pie imaginable. Next post I will try to untie a few more of the knots.
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