News Briefs – 11/24/2022

I forget the name of the act, but during Barry’s administration, a 1948 law prohibiting the “media” from propagandizing the public was struck down. The media is free to spread propaganda left and right.

Regarding the mass “shootings”, some are starting to suspect that they report drills as if they’re the real thing. That explains many inconsistencies, like the same people at shootings in different locations, old guy blocking the door while somebody is shooting inside, SWAT officers having IMDB pages, etc.

“China is developing a nuclear system that will be used to power its lunar station planned to be developed on the Moon’s South Pole. ”
“…It will be interesting to see if they pull it off…”

There’s no doubt, even the slightest, they can. Why? They went to Oak Ridge Lavatory maybe a decade ago and copied ever single file we had on molten salt reactors. These reactors can burn every single bit of the nuclear fuel. Regular reactors something like 3% or so and then they are waste. Molten salt reactors, if set up this way, will burn waste. We have enough waste to supply the US power grid with over a hundred years of power at high levels. The waste alone can create trillion of dollars worth of energy. Since this is so good, of course they killed an operating functioning reactor MSR and spent the research dollars elsewhere on stupid, mindless sodium reactors that if the sodium hits water it explodes. Good move that. If a molten salt reactor is literally blasted open, the salt just freezes like lead.

If you’re interested in molten salt reactors, this is one the very best explanations. Kurt Sorenson is fantastic at explaining this in a simple, uncomplicated way. Even if you know nothing about nuclear power, reactors or molten salt reactors you will understand all the basics after watching this. I can not recommend this enough if you have any interest in energy in any way.

Kirk Sorensen

” PROTOSPACE on Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVSmf_qmkbg

Miles Mathis on the Colorado mass shooting:

http://mileswmathis.com/aldrich.pdf

I agree with the take that all of these are faked. However, they were ridiculously sloppy with this one.

RE: AI art.

Ya, I was thinking that was AI art as well. I am a fan of the happy merchant meme, but those images are pretty annoying. There has definitely been an uptick on garbage on pol to drown out anything good. Its a traditional COINTELPRO technique being automated more successfully now. Everyone involved in shitting up the internet in this way, cause its not just pol, should be executed.
As far as the video, anyone could do that one. The clip is from a film and just has made up subtitles. Adding subtitles to an already existing movie scene shouldn’t be that difficult technically.

‘Balenciaga replaces child BDSM-themed ads with new creepy campaign that features Belgian painter known for “pedophilia, blood ritual, occultism, cannibalism, and racism.”’

Belgium is very bad news, a country to absolutely avoid. I’m not even going to click on that link.

In the 19th century, there was already a famous Belgian painter, James Ensor, who did disturbing Cabal art.

And here’s a 1999 news article from the freaking New York Times (!):

BRUSSELS— In Belgium, the X-Files refer not to the U.S. television series but to a series of horrific witness accounts of an alleged pedophile network.
The five women and the male transvestite who testified anonymously in Belgium under the code-name “X” described an underworld of snuff movies and sadomasochist torture that was almost impossible to believe. And they said that politicians and other highly placed members of society were involved.

Furthermore, the Belgians did a huge genocide in the Congo Free State around 1900, about 10 million killed.

The headquarters of the EU and Nato are in Brussels, Belgium.

Etc.

Banned out of nowhere from Instagram and then dropped by most of his tool sponsors. Complete BS reason given. He’s trying to leave corporate behind for his small business and they yanked his legs out from under him.

Sounds familiar

this killed half of my business
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8ejmt5GKAQ

I’ve written about this phenomenon before, so I won’t repeat it again. But over the weekend, I ran across a pretty interesting take on it, though not inspired directly by Renn’s claim. A friend sent me a copy of Return Of The Gods, a book by the Messianic Jewish megachurch pastor Jonathan Cahn, who is a New York Times bestselling author. I don’t know the Evangelical and charismatic world that much, so I was interested to see what the book had to say. I’m going to write about it below, with the caveat that I certainly don’t know enough about the theology and history of Ancient Near East religion to be able to judge his claims. I will say that as I read it on the train to Vienna yesterday, I checked a few of the claims out online with academic sources, and they all seemed to be solid.
Cahn bases the book on Jesus’s words in Matthew 12:

“When an impure spirit comes out of a person, it goes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it. Then it says, ‘I will return to the house I left.’ When it arrives, it finds the house unoccupied, swept clean and put in order.  Then it goes and takes with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there. And the final condition of that person is worse than the first. That is how it will be with this wicked generation.”

Cahn points out that the priests and prophets of ancient Israel were constantly contending with the rival gods of the Near East. The Israelites were always being tempted to abandon worship of the true God in favor of Baal or other demonic entities worshiped as divinity by other tribes of the region. Cahn’s view (and mine) is that these false gods were actual spiritual entities, but demonic. He points out that whenever the Israelites abandoned the Lord, and began to worship these demonic entities, God punished them.
Cahn’s claim in this book is Jesus Christ sent all these demonic gods into civilizational exile. It’s not that they ceased to exist, but that they did not have the power over civilization that they once did. Reading this, I thought of this 2003 essay by theologian David Bentley Hart, “Christ Or Nothing,” in which Hart said:

“I am the Lord thy God,” says the First Commandment, “Thou shalt have no other gods before me.” For Israel this was first and foremost a demand of fidelity, by which God bound His people to Himself, even if in later years it became also a proclamation to the nations. To Christians, however, the commandment came through—and so was indissolubly bound to—Christ. As such, it was not simply a prohibition of foreign cults, but a call to arms, an assault upon the antique order of the heavens—a declaration of war upon the gods. All the world was to be evangelized and baptized, all idols torn down, all worship given over to the one God who, in these latter days, had sent His Son into the world for our salvation. It was a long and sometimes terrible conflict, occasionally exacting a fearful price in martyrs’ blood, but it was, by any just estimate, a victory: the temples of Zeus and Isis alike were finally deserted, both the paean and the dithyramb ceased to be sung, altars were bereft of their sacrifices, the sibyls fell silent, and ultimately all the glory, nobility, and cruelty of the ancient world lay supine at the feet of Christ the conqueror.

Nor, for early Christians, was this mere metaphor. When a gentile convert stood in the baptistery on Easter’s eve and, before descending naked into the waters, turned to the West to renounce the devil and the devil’s ministers, he was rejecting, and in fact reviling, the gods in bondage to whom he had languished all his life; and when he turned to the East to confess Christ, he was entrusting himself to the invincible hero who had plundered hell of its captives, overthrown death, subdued the powers of the air, and been raised the Lord of history. Life, for the early Church, was spiritual warfare; and no baptized Christian could doubt how great a transformation—of the self and the world—it was to consent to serve no other god than Him whom Christ revealed.

We are still at war, of course, but the situation of the Church has materially altered, and I suspect that, by comparison to the burden the First Commandment lays upon us today, the defeat of the ancient pantheon, and the elemental spirits, and the demons lurking behind them will prove to have been sublimely easy. For, as I say, we moderns believe in nothing: the nothingness of the will miraculously giving itself form by mastering the nothingness of the world. The gods, at least, were real, if distorted, intimations of the mysterium tremendum, and so could inspire something like holy dread or, occasionally, holy love. They were brutes, obviously, but often also benign despots, and all of us I think, in those secret corners of our souls where we are all monarchists, can appreciate a good despot, if he is sufficiently dashing and mysterious, and able to strike an attractive balance between capricious wrath and serene benevolence. Certainly the Olympians had panache, and a terrible beauty whose disappearance from the world was a bereavement to obdurately devout pagans. Moreover, in their very objectivity and supremacy over their worshipers, the gods gave the Church enemies with whom it could come to grips. Perhaps they were just so many gaudy veils and ornate brocades drawn across the abyss of night, death, and nature, but they had distinct shapes and established cults, and when their mysteries were abandoned, so were they.

How, though, to make war on nothingness, on the abyss itself, denuded of its mythic allure? It seems to me much easier to convince a man that he is in thrall to demons and offer him manumission than to convince him that he is a slave to himself and prisoner to his own will. Here is a god more elusive, protean, and indomitable than either Apollo or Dionysus; and whether he manifests himself in some demonic titanism of the will, like the mass delirium of the Third Reich, or simply in the mesmeric banality of consumer culture, his throne has been set in the very hearts of those he enslaves. And it is this god, I think, against whom the First Commandment calls us now to struggle.

That’s not really what Cahn is saying, to be clear, but I quote Hart simply to point out that the crushing of pagan belief by Christianity was so thorough that we are not tempted, collectively, to return to the worship of pagan deities.
But Cahn argues that these deities — as demonic spiritual entities — did not cease to exist. In fact, he argues that they are coming back under different names, or under no particular theological name at all. He says that the de-Christianization of our society in the twentieth century has brought back all the old demons, and many more. Return Of The Gods centers on Cahn’s belief that three particular Ancient Near East gods — Baal, Ishtar, and Molech — have now been enthroned, in some sense, over the post-Christian West — and that the West (the United States in particular) is going to face the same fate as ancient Israel when it whored after false gods. It’s a more compelling case than you might expect.
(Again, I caution you that I don’t know about Ancient Near Eastern religion, so I can’t vouch for the claims Jonathan Cahn makes, except for the few I researched myself. I welcome correction if Cahn, or I, have gotten something wrong.)
Take Baal, for example. In the ancient world, Baal was a god of fertility and abundance. Cahn adds that his cult was one of carnality. This, in Cahn’s view, is what America has turned to: the worship of sex and money, and away from the worship of God. Interestingly, one of Baal’s symbols was a bull; Cahn points to the bull statue erected near Wall Street, to honor the “bull market,” as an idol of wealth. There’s a great, scholarly 2019 book, The Enchantments of Mammon, by Eugene McCarraher, about how capitalism displaced Christianity as the true religion of the modern West. I’m reading it for my re-enchantment project, on the recommendation of Father Stephen De Young. McCarraher writes in a secular, scholarly voice, not a voice like the pastor — but the message is more or less the same.
The second — and most interesting — god in Cahn’s book is Ishtar (Astarte/Ashtoreth/Venus/Inanna), the Babylonian goddess of love, pictured above. She was the goddess of sacred prostitution, of transgression, and the blurring of boundaries. Did you know that she was also the goddess of gender fluidity? I thought that was too on the nose to be true, but it is. This is easy to discover from authoritative sources online, but here’s a very short bit from Psychology Today:

The Mesopotamian Ishtar, the beautiful goddess of fertility, love, war, and sex, was sometimes represented with a beard to emphasize her more bellicose side. She could change a man into a woman, and the assinnu, kurgarru, and kuku’u who performed her cult had both male and female features.

Cahn asks what it would mean for America to fall into the worship of Ishtar?

We would expect a transformation to begin that would alter the realm of sexuality. With the goddess’s entrance we would expect biblical standards and ethics surrounding sexuality and marriage to begin to erode. We would expect the moral foundations and values that had undergirded Western civilization for nearly two thousand years to begin overturning.

In short, we would expect there to be a revolution in the realm of sexuality — a sexual revolution.

More:

Not only did Ishtar introduce, promulgate, and champion sexual immorality — she sanctified it; she declared it holy. Sexually immoral acts were part of her cult and worship, performed as rites in her temples and shrines. So in the grip of her spirit, the same thing began manifesting in American and Western culture. Sexual immorality was now not only accepted but treated as sacred.

Now it was the former standards and restraints that were seen as sinful, puritanical, repressive, and evil. And the one who opposed the newly sanctified sins or failed to adequately revere them was now treated as something of a heretic, and the opposition to the new morality as something akin to blasphemy.

What the spirit of Baal had begun, the spirit of Ashtoreth, or Ishtar, had taken to another level. The work of each god was to bring about the inversion of civilization. Ishtar had inverted the realm of sexuality. She had taken what was forbidden, unspoken, and taboo and, step-by-step, introduced it into the mainstream culture. The shock of each step would be followed by familiarity and numbness, then toleration, then acceptance, then celebration.

Cahn says the third false good of his “Dark Trinity” is Molech, the god to whom people in the Ancient Near East sacrificed children. They sacrificed these children for the sake of achieving blessing, including prosperity, from the god. Cahn correctly links this to abortion, and to Ishtar’s rites — that is, unwanted children conceived by Ishtar-worshippers could be offered to Molech. It is no accident, says the pastor, that Planned Parenthood is not only the go-to place for abortions, but also the go-to place to get cross-sex hormones to change your sex — which, of course, renders you infertile. It’s all a death cult.
The Ishtar material in this book is amazing. Cahn quotes a Hittite hymn to the goddess describing her as the one who will “…grind away from men manliness.” There was a prayer to her praising her power to emasculate and feminize men (Cahn footnotes these, citing academic articles, but I couldn’t find an online link). He cites NYU archaeologist Zainab Bahrani’s scholarly book Women of Babylon as saying Ishtar’s nature was to “destroy masculinity” and to work, in effect, “destruction of the cultural order.” Another writer says:

Additionally, Inanna [Another name of Ishtar — RD] is depicted as embodying both male and female qualities. She says, ‘Though I am a woman I am a noble young man..’ (24) Her androgyny is attested to in her cultic personnel, which included eunuchs and transvestites and during her festival young men carried hoops, a feminine symbol, while young women carried swords. The(25) In-nin-sa-gur-ra says, ‘She (Ishtar) [changes] the right side (male) into the left side (female), she [changes] the left side into the right side, she [turns] a man into a woman, she [turns] a woman into a man, she ador[ns] a man as a woman, she ador[ns] a woman as a man.’ For Sjoberg this merely refers to the changing roles of men and women in cult ceremonies, but given the world-turned-upside-down nature of her cultic festivities an element of gender role reversal does not seem unfeasible. As Harris says, Inanna was ‘a deity who incorporated fundamental and irreducible paradoxes.’ She argues that through her embodiment of these opposing qualities she succeeded in transcending them.

Cahn says, sensibly, that if Ishtar worship came to America, we would expect to see the feminization of males and the masculinization of females, and overall gender confusion. Well… .
What’s more, her ritual followers — priests and others — engaged in public acts of androgyny, to show their devotion. Drag culture, Pride parades, and so forth, are exactly that, in Cahn’s view. She was a goddess of inversion. If she were to be worshiped in America, says Cahn, the Judeo-Christian sexual order would be overturned, and its opposite enshrined as normative. And that is exactly what happened. According to an ancient Sumerian document, the demons who accompany Inanna/Ishtar when she arises out of the underworld

tear away the wife from a man’s embrace. They snatch the son from a man’s knee. They make the bride leave the house of her father-in-law. … They take the wife away from a man’s embrace. 

Enhuedanna, high priestess of the moon in the Sumerian city of Ur, hymned Inanna/Ishtar like this:

To destroy, to create, to tear out, to establish are yours, Inanna.

To turn a man into a woman and a woman into a man are yours, Inanna.

Cahn quotes from this passage written by a contemporary trans commentator:

One well known text of similar antiquity to Enheduanna’s work describes a religious festival held in honour of Inanna. It describes the celebrants as follows:

The people of Sumer parade before you.

[…]

The male prostitutes comb their hair before you.

They decorate the napes of their necks with coloured scarfs.

[…]

The women adorn their right side with men’s clothing.

[…]

The men adorn their left side with women’s clothing.

[…]

The ascending kurgarra priests raise their swords before you.

… The description of the festival appears to show the people of the city cross-dressing specifically for the purpose of the celebration. Indeed the whole thing sounds very like a gay pride parade, with lots of people just dressing up for the party. 

Here’s the freakiest thing. In Ancient Near Eastern mythology, Tammuz was the lover of Ishtar. The month of Tammuz (which still exists in the Hebrew calendar) marks the month of the separation of Tammuz and Ishtar, which Cahn interprets as symbolizing the tearing away of men and women from each other. He points out that the Stonewall Riots, which marked the advent of the gay rights movement, occurred on the 10th of Tammuz, which in Babylon was the date on which it was considered ritually correct to cast spells to make men love men.

That’s right: the modern gay rights movement began on this anniversary. And, as Cahn points out, the three Supreme Court decisions most important to the gay rights movement — Lawrence (2003), which decriminalized homosexuality across the board; Windsor (2013), which struck down the Defense of Marriage Act; and Obergefell (2015), which legalized same-sex marriage — all came on June 26. Moreover, Tammuz, which doesn’t always coincide with our calendar, as it is a lunar calendar, nevertheless most of the time falls in the month of June — which has become the High Holy Month of Pride.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/three-worlds-of-evangelicalism-the-gods-return/