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¹⁶And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:

 ¹⁷And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

Revelation 13:15-17

Paypal has refused service to Christian activists who outspokenly defend traditional marriage or mention that the Apostle Paul opposed homosexual behavior. They are trying to make it appear that being a traditional Christian is something reprehensible or dirty:

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=346825

In so doing, Paypal has accepted responsibility for the content of web sites and products paid for through its services. That could come back to bite the agency in the butt because if it admits that it screens clients’ site content, then how does it explain that it has cheerfully served child porn sites?

If this is true, Paypal may have been an accomplice to criminal activity that could land a few of their execs in the slammer.

Here is a report showing that Paypal has enabled people to buy child porn with its service:

http://politisite.com/2010/07/23/pentagon-workers-purchased-child-porn-via-paypal/

PENTAGON WORKERS PURCHASED CHILD PORN VIA PAYPAL

WASHINGTON – Federal investigators have identified several dozen Pentagon officials and contractors with high-level security clearances who allegedly purchased and downloaded child pornography, including an undisclosed number who used their government computers to obtain the illegal material according to investigative reports.

Further, if you do a search with the search terms

drug paraphernalia paypal

you will also find some offshore sites that allow customers to use Paypal to buy illegal drugs and paraphernalia.

Paypal has made a pretense of having halted this service, but there are offshore sellers claiming that you can still use Paypal to buy the paraphernalia and small amounts of drug. See for yourself:

420 Distributors Marijuana Pipes and Online Paraphernalia

www.420distributors.com/ – CachedSimilar- Block all www.420distributors.com results

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Buy whatever you like to smoke and you’ll discover beautiful marijuana pipes. … Buy Marijuana Pipes and Online Paraphernalia … by secure credit cards, accepted by bank transfers, Paypal payments, cash/cheques and worldwide delivery.

…

Now the hypocrites are pretending to be worried that some customers might be tainted with the pernicious idea that marriage is between a man and a woman, pretending such a viewpoint is in itself dangerous, but they themselves have no qualms about drug dealers and child porn sellers using their services!

You can contact Paypal at

apacdd@paypal.com

or call them at: 1-402-935-2050 (USA)

Remind Paypal that they agreed not to discriminate against people for their views. Tell them to keep their word and stop the persecution of Christian ministries.

The fact is, if Paypal doesn’t knock off this dangerous game soon, there are Christian lawyers who will gladly seek to have Paypal executives arrested for promoting child porn. Even if they have stopped, those executives knew they were aiding and abetting criminals and can still be prosecuted for what they did.

Obviously, Paypal does not believe in the God of the Bible and thinks they are God. But God is used to dealing with people like that.

Please take the time to pray and thank God for allowing WorldNetDaily to report on this injustice. Pray that God will protect Julio and his family no matter what the enemies of God try to do to him.

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A Time Of Absolute Evil

Guy Leven-Torres

20^th April 2011

I detest and despise the ‘Left’. The word for ‘Left’ in Latin is Sinistro. The Romans made no bones about it, the Left was the side of evil, bad luck and ill omen. The left side of the legionary was the shield arm, tasked with protecting the body from harm, while his right held the sturdy gladius. Right was the strong- good side. Our word sinister also comes from the Latin sinistro.

I have been fighting the ‘Left’ since my youth, ever since I saw them in Grosvenor Square as they tried to break in and destroy the American Embassy in the Summer of ’68. I was barely 15 years old, yet that experience was to stay with me for the rest of my life. I had never seen or experienced such violence and insane, pathological hatred. It was the time of the Czech attempt to cast off the Soviet occupier. As President Dubczek tried to negotiate, the Russian tanks moved in. Hundreds died, probably thousands. The creatures that rioted in London that Summer tried to impose the Soviet system upon us as the brave Czechs tried to expel them. I also noticed a ‘quality’ the rioters seemed to possess- a type glazed look in their eyes and speech that seemed to come from elsewhere, not the body or person itself- almost as if the body had been taken over by some outside force. I have noted this ‘quality’ in most, if not all Leftists I have worked with. Most are angry, very angry people but it is not anger at the state of the world, or some injustice and the desire to do good on behalf of another less fortunate being but about themselves. The only other place I observed this phenomena was in an institution I was assigned to in 1990 after a breakdown, when my business collapsed. The majority of patients were involved in academics or some other related field. I recovered- most of them apparently were regular patients.

The anger I perceived was due to an over keen sense of personal entitlement, in that the world was ignoring them and that it had no right to but also, most importantly they had been made to suffer through being ignored and that the world, had no right to do this. They and their desires came before everyone and everything else. The world had no right to ignore them whatsoever. Also plainly clear, was their desire for personal revenge, against a world they thought owed them everything, including a living and they were none too particular how they achieved it. I came to know many ‘Leftists’ and I met not one, who had not suffered during their upbringing from some form of abuse or other, ranging from dysfunctional family backgrounds, as in incest, paedophilia, alcoholism, drug dependency, physical abuse, adultery and divorce or simply a warped sense of self -importance, whether or not it was to compensate for the lack of warmth and love in their families.

Most of them went on to suffer major trauma themselves in their adult lives and spreading their chaos to the rest of more balanced society. I can declare in quite objective terms, that I do regard Leftist ‘politics’ the haven of mentally defective, often severely immature (arrested development), amoral, socio-psychopathic individuals and my findings are supported, by official studies into so called ‘Liberal’ politics by famous and respected US and Canadian psychologists. Look at any Leftwing political type today, delve into their family background and one will find the usual litany of abusive relations and dysfunctions. In short we are dealing with thousands of assorted psychiatric cases. Many are in and out of lunatic asylums, suffer from sexual deviation, fear of women and family and chronic incurable psychosis. This is why our society in the West on both sides of the Atlantic resembles an asylum. They also have a pathological fear moral authority, especially Christianity unless it is their own amoral version.

In order to achieve their desire for absolute power, they will coalesce into like-minded groups of similar misfits, usually with an overall-overarching political creed or ethos that saves them from having to think original thoughts and feelings of chronic insecurity and worthlessness. A strong political ideology is therefore very attractive to them. Whether it be Marx, Islam or Hitler, it supplies the missing ‘moral’ framework in their lives. Also of great importance, is the ‘grouping’ of like minded dysfunctional individuals. They are usually dominated by A type, charismatic individuals, both male and female, in a kind of vampiric relationship, in which the dominant Alphas feed off the chronic insecurities of the Beta personalities within the group hierarchy. The group becomes all important, in order for mutual support of dysfunctional, often immoral-amoral thinking, activities and intentions. The group or ‘hive’ acts as a safe house of delusion, governed by the super glue of political ideology, usually Socialism and so called revolutionary ideas. Most of this ideology is inhuman, incredibly destructive of both wider society it infects and the individual that succumbs to its siren call.

A woman I know, now in her sixties and a confirmed Leftist all her life, who used to work as a senior librarian in a University I attended, suffers appallingly from personal guilt, loneliness, rejection and almost total inability to form lasting friendships. Her father was a practising homosexual and Professor and she took this as a rejection of her. She has spent many years trying to ‘find herself’ and is in and out of mental institutions. She is not alone. Try to discuss logically, matters like ‘climate change’ and one is immediately and viciously attacked with an armed verbal assault about whom she knows, who told her, ‘they are never wrong!’ etc, etc. The expert ‘opinion’ she often quotes, is not only nothing to do with scientific opinion but have no academic background in the subject whatsoever. Her reasoning went as far to justify their conclusions and expertise in the fact they read the Guardian, the well known leftist journal of all leftist journals. She also quoted the BBC as an ‘informed source’. This is ‘group think’ in practice or ‘They say it, so it must be so, because that is how we want it to be!’ This is incredibly childish.

Today we face the advent of Eurabia. I maintain that the ongoing actions and disturbance across the Moslem world, is the work of EU bureaucrats, intent on recreating a neo- colonial empire stretching from John O’Groats to the Persian Gulf. I last posted an article detailing its rapidly increasing consolidation, the effects of which can be glimpsed with deliberately allowed. or created mass immigration by thousands of males across the Mediterranean into Italy, Spain, Greece, Cyprus and the new open border policies of the Turkish Government, paid and encouraged by its EU paymasters, as prior condition to its formal acceptance into the EU. The Open Borders policy is the final preparatory step for the creation of the Euro-Med Union. Syria, Iraq, Jordan now enjoy open access and travel to Europe without visas via Turkey. Europe is also being deliberately and systematically Islamified with de facto sharia law, already in place to forbid all dissent on pain of arrest and imprisonment, and all criticism of Islam forbidden. In every country affected by Islamic migration, the UK, Holland, Belgium, Denmark, especially Sweden but also Germany, Moslems enjoy protected status and Islam will become the European religion, short of a miracle. Christians in the UK have increasingly been, persecuted, prosecuted, imprisoned, physically beaten, sacked from their jobs simply for speaking out or displaying their faith. I too have taken considerable abuse and threat to my personal freedom.

Moslems on the other hand are allowed to wear their religious clothing, spout hatred and violence and demand and given sharia law, in direct contradiction to traditional Christianity, which is now a fringe religion. Sharia law now rules most Islamic ghettos in the UK and Europe. I was recently informed by a British police officer, that ‘You are not allowed to criticise Islam! It is regarded as religious hatred and race abuse!’ I challenged him and asked him why he and his colleagues obeyed such injunctions? ‘Were they not ashamed of themselves?’ I continued. His reply was ‘It is the Law!’ I replied, ‘Not as far as I am concerned it isn’t! I used to be a lawyer myself! Can you show me the laws that apply?’ He accused me over the phone of ‘getting close to hate speech!’ This is the UK today and much of Europe. Every organ of state, every institution, and any and every official high and low, is subject to group enforced, inhuman ‘diversity’ training. Individuals are bullied into becoming self-censoring Leftist clones. The whole EU apparatus operates the same way through the tyranny of group reinforced, programmed diversity brainwashing dialectic. And this should come as no surprise, as the elite is the same as those I encountered in Grosvenor Square in 1968. They run the EU today and the White House in Washington and every government in Europe. They are creating a Global Soviet using sharia to halt dissent, and importing millions of Moslems to dilute and destroy the nations of the West but also, to eventually replace whole European populations. This is genocide plain and simple. I know this to be so because I have been told to my face by Leftwing activists. It is why I write today. The elite want you and I to simply die away. We are regarded as having failed in our revolutionary duty in the 1960s to 1980s. Therefore we must be destroyed or rather discarded as lumpenproletarii, to be replaced by better suited peoples to impose the Global Socialist Paradise of which mass migration and Islamism, is the latest favoured client weapon of choice. Islamism and Islamists, now dominates the disgusting psychopathic Unite Against Fascism and increasingly, New Labour and Tory parties in what was once Great Britain.

The Left feel there is nothing immoral or wrong with Islamifying Europe under sharia law. Both totalitarian ideologies rely on mass terror, both psychological and physical violence in nature, both employ thuggish Thought Police, both are violently anti- women, anti- Christian, pro- homosexual, even if it is a hidden facet of Islam but also, why they hate women and the family so much but above everything, they hate the West and its superior civilisation. Both Islamists and Leftists are psychopaths with megalomaniac dreams of conquest. Both are simply evil. I have seen and heard Leftists boast about how they will use ‘each and every means to destroy the West’. I have no reason to doubt them. Likewise many Moslems, through years of interbreeding, suffer like the Left, socio-pathic tendencies, irrational thought, illogical pathological hatred of anything decent, lower than average IQ quotients and endemic medically certifiable lunacy. This is no secret by the way. The Ptolemies of Egypt also suffered genetic weaknesses, ranging from still births, haemophilia, and other abnormalities, including amorality and murderous dispositions, that shocked the staid Romans of the day. Congenital idiocy and abnormalities are also common among many of Europe’s aristocracy too. Interbreeding, or incest is also rampant with Britain’s Socialist elite too, if reports in the UK’s papers are to be believed.

In summary we are run by people who are patently, quite certifiably insane!

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Strengthening the enemies

 Olavo de Carvalho

Discounting the brief interruption in the Reagan era, American foreign policy since the end of World War II can be summarized by two rules which the State Department has followed with exemplary faithfulness and consistency:

1. Trade allied dictators for enemy dictators.

2.  In so doing, trade authoritarian governments for totalitarian governments a thousand times more corrupt.

Sometimes in a direct, brutal, and overt way, sometimes in an indirect, subtle, and underhanded way, and sometimes helping those against whom they had fought until the day before, the United States replaced Chiang Kai-Shek with Mao Zedong, Fulgencio Batista with Fidel Castro, Shah Reza Pahlevi with Ayatollah Khomeini, Ngo Dinh Diem with Ho Chi Minh, and General Lon Nol with Pol Pot. In human terms, the cost of all this tinkering was no less than 80 million deaths. Because of specific differences beyond the scope of this paper I am not including in the list the fact that Americans managed to get rid of Adolf Hitler at the cost of a hundred fold increase in Josef Stalin’s power and half a century of Cold War that cost them dearly.

Now the United States is replacing an ally, Hosni Mubarak, with the superlatively hostile Muslim Brotherhood, mother of all anti-American movements in the Islamic world.

In all of these cases, the government thrown overboard was on the right, while its triumphant successor was on the left. The leftists’ international outcry against Washington’s support for right-wing dictatorships is, quite obviously a disinformation engineering job calculated to obscure the stark fact that, in terms of dictators, the communists and pro-communists have been by far the biggest recipients of American aid. Some right-wing tyrants may have been “lackeys” of the United States, as the threadbare communist rhetoric proclaims, but the left-wing ones are not lackeys: they are their protégés. If the former have to work hard to repay the aid, the latter are given everything and asked for nothing in return.

Anthony Sutton, the English economist who for decades studied the generous and never-repaid flow of American money to communist countries, summarized the subject by saying that the United States always strove to get “the best enemy money could buy.”

In one of these calamitous operations, the beneficiary himself proved somewhat shocked by the generosity bestowed on him. When Americans overthrew Ngo Din Diem, Ho Chi Minh remarked: “I cannot believe Americans are that stupid.” Diem was, after all, according to North Vietnam’s Politbureau, “the greatest force of anti-communist resistance” in the region.

In all cases, without exception, the official pretext was the promotion of democracy.

The only amazing thing in this whole sequence of events is the slowness of the population—and the deliberate refusal of the media—to realize the obstinate and patent consistency of the official anti-Americanism installed in the upper echelons of Washington. The contrast between historical reality and its public image could not be sharper. The majority of the American electorate continue to believe in the legend that its country is an imperialist power committed to valiantly defending national interests and halting the advance of communists, Islamists, and all potential enemies of America, when in fact these enemies could not survive a single day without the assistance they receive from Washington.

As early as the 1950s, an investigative committee of the House of Representatives proved, beyond a shadow of a doubt, the massive support that communist governments, parties, and movements had been receiving from major billion-dollar foundations—the same ones that through the Council on Foreign Relations and similar institutions have played a major role in the selection and approval of candidates for any public office in the federal upper echelons of the US. In recent decades, the volume of contributions to universal anti-Americanism has increased mightily, turning what was once the leading nation in the world into a walled-in, hated, and cowed country, fearing to take any serious initiative against its aggressors, even within its own territory. Today there are more Chinese and Russian spies in the United States than during the Cold War, while organizations that support Islamic terrorism are allowed to operate freely, and any attempt to denounce them is repelled as an intolerable sign of extremism.

American intervention in the Egyptian crisis does not deviate from the long-established course. From the outset, both the Obama administration and George Soros—one of the chief sponsors of the current president’s career—have had friendly contacts with the Muslim Brotherhood and have encouraged it to unleash a rebellion against an ally of the US government.

The likelihood that the Brotherhood, once in power, will establish a democratic, pluralistic system is so remote and contrived as was the chance that Josef Stalin might have done the same thing once he succeeded Lenin. The regime which will possibly come after Mubarak’s removal has already shown its true colors even before coming to power, by promoting the slaughter of Christians and the burning of churches. Both the American government and the entire journalistic class are well aware of this, but they refrain from drawing the most obvious and compelling conclusions from these facts. Instead they continue to present the conflict as a struggle between Egyptian idealist democrats and the evil dictator Mubarak.

For many decades the American mainstream media —starting with The New York Times and CNN—have radically abdicated their journalistic duties and become a mere instrument of social engineering. Their current mission is not to spread information, but to meticulously control its flow so as to encourage behaviors desired by the globalist establishment and to discourage inconvenient questions.

Within the American national environment, the effectiveness of this control is quite relative, because the big media in the United States are not as big as their counterpart in Brazil, and there is a vast number of independent publications and radio stations that reach at least 50 percent of the population, showing the American people all of what the global elite would like to completely black out behind a lead shield.

It so happens, however, that the non-aligned media have strictly national circulation. They do not reach other countries. In particular, they are completely unknown in Brazil. Thus, the official view, which fails to subdue the American electorate, ultimately spreads freely throughout the world, and is construed as a kind of universal consensus.

Though limited, the credibility of the official view still seems excessive to me, since this view is daily challenged by facts which never shake in the slightest the faith of the devotees. A brief historical study will suffice to show that the principles and criteria of judgment which now guide the American mainstream media are literally the same as those that Soviet propagandists tried, unsuccessfully, to impose on the American population between the 1940’s and the 1950’s. The change was profound and overwhelming. In a few decades, at least half of the American population has grown to hate what it once loved and to accuse its own country of a thousand crimes committed by external and internal enemies, and yet these Americans have no idea that they were induced into this by the action of an omnipresent and hostile foreign force. Just as communist infiltration in the Roosevelt, Truman, and Eisenhower administrations was far greater than Joe McCarthy himself then imagined (read Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America, John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr and Alexander Vassiliev, Yale University Press, 2009), and just as the communist cultural war effort ended up dominating almost the entire education system in the United States to the extent that it merged with the local atmosphere and passed itself off as a spontaneous home-grown movement, the penetration of Islamic agents into all of the upper echelons of Washington was so quick and efficient an action that I can’t describe it here. One must read the book of P. David Gaubatz, Paul Sperry, Muslim Mafia: Inside The Secret Underworld That’s conspiring to Islamize America (WND Books, 2009), to understand how these things happen before the blind and foolish eyes of so many people.

In vain will the reader search the pages of The New York Times and The Washington Post, or the comments by CNN or MSNBC for any mention of the fact that Obama is acting, in Egypt, in favor of the largest anti-American organization in the universe. In the United States there is no official censorship, and that information, with sufficient evidence, reaches us from thousands of channels. But it does not reach the believers in the mainstream media, and above all, it does not leave American shores.

Even if the government that emerges out of Mubarak’s downfall is a coalition government, the Muslim Brotherhood will certainly play the predominant role in it, and this is the surest guarantee that the country will move towards a regime which will be at once dictatorial, murderous to Christians, and openly hostile to the state of Israel.

The Obama administration is fostering not only another anti-American dictatorship, but a war.

Olavo de Carvalho taught Political Philosophy at the Catholic University of Parana (Brazil) from 2001 to 2005 and is the author of twelve books. He is the founder of the Inter-American Institute for Philosophy, Government and Social Thought. He now lives in the United States as a correspondent for Brazilian newspapers. Website: www.olavodecarvalho.org.

Translator: Alessandro Cota

Translation reviewer: Don Hank

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The following commentary titled “The technique of reverse labeling” reflects a situation that is so absurd as to be almost laughable – that is, if it weren’t for the harm that is being done to at least one persecuted Christian, our good friend Julio Severo, who is in hiding thanks to a Marxist government that criminalizes all public speech unfavorable to homosexuals.

First, please read Mr. de Carvalho’s commentary on this and then my email to the professor who wishes to harm Julio even more. I had originally hoped Professor Nicolelis would respond, but he has chosen to ignore my email.

Pastor Severo is a perfect example of how a Christian minister who wants to help homosexuals break away from their dangerous lifestyle (70% of AIDS cases are active male homosexuals) is persecuted by influential Leftists who want to make sure they never break away and remain trapped. The death of these unfortunate people seems to make no difference at all to the callous Brazilian Left, which also wholeheartedly supports the murder of the unborn.

The fact is, these same leftists who want to keep homosexuals trapped in their unwanted lifestyle are the real homophobes, despite the fact that they falsely label others that way.

Emails for Dr Nicolelis if you desire an explanation for his actions:

nicoleli@neuro.duke.edu

and colleagues (be polite):

http://www.neuro.duke.edu/faculty/nicolelis/personnel.html

Don Hank

The technique of reverse labeling

by Olavo de Carvalho

Miguel Nicolelis is a neuroscience teacher at Duke University (USA), founder of the Edmond & Lilly Safra Neuroscientific Institute (Macaíba, RN) and member of the Brazilian and French Academies of Sciences. Added to that notable curriculum was his recent appointment by Pope Benedict XVI to the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy of Sciences. The Viomundo website, directed by journalist Luiz Carlos Azenha, now introduces him in a still more attractive light, claiming the scientist is a defenseless victim of a vast hate and fear mongering campaign waged by the eternally abominable “extreme right.”

Shocked and intimidated by the murderous virulence of the campaign, Prof. Nicolelis, in a tone of spurious sincerity distinguishing him as an unconditional follower of the free and democratic debate, warns against the dangers of ideological radicalization:

“Your political, ideological opponent starts to be seen as your enemy. And that enemy is subject to any kind of punishment, even death. I cannot imagine that those people spreading hate, revenge and violent messages can at the same time be Christians.”

But, after all, what did the murderous campaign consist of? It consisted of two things: Firstly, a ten-line story, published at the Rorate Coeli website on January 5 (see: http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2011/01/pope-names-pro-abortion-and-pro-gay.html), stating that Prof. Nicolelis is a fervent defender of abortion and the gay agenda (and also, as of last year, of the candidacy of radical socialist Dilma Rousseff). His presence in an institution linked to the Catholic Church is therefore a little strange. Then, an article written by American journalist Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, published on the website Last Days Watchman (see: http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/defender-of-for-abortion-and-homosexualist-police-appointed-to-vaticans-to) and later reproduced with or without additions and comments on a few Christian websites, among them the Brazilian version of Lifesitenews, Notícias Pró-Família, administered by Brazilian writer Julio Severo (I will speak about him later on). Hoffman, who is a Catholic, commented, “Pope Benedict XVI is a staunch defender of the right to life and of family values, and it is unlikely that he was aware of Nicolelis’ record when he made the appointment.”

Was there some threat, any hint of injurious plans? Prof. Nicolelis admits, “No, there was none.”

In view of these perfectly inoffensive expressions of disagreement, how did Prof. Nicolelis react? By debating with his opponents? No way. He himself describes his argumentative procedures:

“My laboratory staff contacted Duke University, warned about those websites and the university police have already begun to monitor the case. The security of my laboratory was reinforced… Nobody enters there without going through security procedures.”

And he cautions: at the first threatening sign in Brazil, he will call the Federal Police immediately.

Among the potential aggressors of Prof. Nicolelis denounced by the Viomundo website, one has already been put under control. Julio Severo, wanted by Brazilian authorities for the heinous crime of having stated and insisted that homosexuality is a sin and curable, is hidden abroad, moving from one country to another, living in extreme poverty with a wife and four small children. Journalist Luiz Carlos Azenha mentions that fact with evident contentment. The Fórum website, by columnist Luis Nassif (http://blogln.ning.com/forum/topics/homofobia-em-preto-e-branco), also celebrates it as a sign that Brazilian democracy is progressing.

The logical premises forming the basis of Prof. Nicolelis’ statements and the reports of the Viomundo and Forum websites could not be more evident:

1) Uttering a single word against homosexuality, even in a generic way and with no threat, is incitement to violence, something unworthy of people professing to be Christians.

2) An informed citizen and lover of the free and democratic debate should react to those opinions by presenting himself publicly as a victim under imminent attack, calling police and having his unfortunate critics persecuted like criminals and hunted down like animals.

The brutally exaggerated reaction is expected to prompt the distinguished public to believe piously that the violent individuals are those who expressed opinions, not those who mobilized against them the armed forces of the repressive State system.

If the reader wanted a local illustration of what I have written previously on the technique of reverse labeling, this is it.

The constant and obsessive use of that technique is one of the most trivial manifestations of the general inversion of reality, characteristic of the revolutionary mentality.

Not by coincidence, but very significantly, Prof. Nicolelis had been railing some time ago against the “hysterical right.” Hysteria, by definition, is a hyperbolic reaction to some imaginary and false provocation. Therefore, when Prof. Nicolelis reacts hysterically, it is the others who are hysterical.

Translated by Julio Severo. Reviewed by Don Hank.

Portuguese version of this article: The technique of reverse labeling

Spanish version of this article:  La técnica de la rotulación inversa

Source: Diário do Comércio

Divulgation: Julio Severo in English

www.lastdayswatchman.blogspot.com

My email to Nicolelis:

Dear Dr. Nicolelis,

You have recently complained that groups of bloggers, whom you refer to as “ultra-right” have expressed concern that you, while serving as a member of the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy of Sciences, also are outspokenly pro-abortion and pro-gay marriage – positions diametrically  opposed to the Vatican’s positions.

It is not surprising that, given the Vatican’s approval of your membership (despite their disagreement with your views), this annoys you, as you have made clear. What surprises is that, in an interview with Viomundo you express fear that anyone who opposes your viewpoints on these issues is a potential threat to your safety or possibly your life.

I learned of this situation when I was asked to edit a translation by Olavo de Carvalho dedicated to your apparently intransigent viewpoint as expressed in that interview and elsewhere. I had intended to run the translation at my web site (Laigle’s Forum) but I then realized, I do not have a personal quarrel with you and it would perhaps be unfair to run this article before hearing your side of the story.

De Carvalho’s article says that, for you

1—Uttering a single word against homosexuality, even in a generic way and with no threat, is incitement to violence, something unworthy of people professing to be Christians.

2—An informed citizen and lover of the free and democratic debate should react to those opinions by presenting himself publicly as a victim under attack, calling police and having his unfortunate critics persecuted like criminals and hunted down like animals.

Obviously, Mr. de Carvalho is being ironic here. But he is conveying the impression, based largely on the aforementioned interview, that you are not in favor of a free debate on certain topics.

My question to you is:

Is an objective debate on homosexuality or abortion, for example, possible in your world or is Mr. de Carvalho correct in his ironic statement about your inflexibility in such areas? Such inflexibility would certainly seem incompatible with a questioning, scientific mind and with the image you otherwise project as a scientist dedicated to open and uninhibited inquiry. I therefore want to give you a chance to respond so that my readers can hear your side as well.

Thank you for your consideration.

Sincerely,

Don Hank

Editor, Laigle’s Forum

The border crisis and cognitive dissonance

by Don Hank

The lack of response and negative response of many Americans to my recent article on the dangerous crisis at the US-Mexican border signals the existence of a sweeping epidemic of the mental disorder known as cognitive dissonance.

We often think of cognitive dissonance in terms of two different world views that one and the same person entertain. A well-known example is the compartmentalization practiced by some Christians who believe in Darwinism on a secular level and the Genesis version of creation on a religious level.

But in the case of the West, a much more serious and virulent form of cognitive dissonance frequently occurs in the minds of citizens whose “background noise” in the form of media reports and opinions, political activism, make us deny what our eyes and ears perceive. In other words, the victim is not only contending with 2 distinct and contradictory world views, which can cause neurosis. He or she is actually trapped (brain washed, we could call it) into believing something that his senses unerringly tell him is not true.

The most amazing example of this more radical form of cognitive dissonance that I have ever witnessed was when, in the midst of the “global warming” craze, a record late frost occurred in my area in PA and not only did the media not report it, but many of the locals with whom I spoke, even as the frost lay on the ground in full view, appeared visibly nervous and edgy when I mentioned that I had never seen frost this late in over 65 years living in the area. Of course, neither had they, but they couldn’t say so because they were supposed to devoutly believe in global warming — and not as the result of scientific study but as a result of fervent devotion of a mystical type not to be confused with brain activity. The belief would save humankind from extinction if only we believed fervently and acted upon our beliefs by accepting whatever remedies the government and the Self-Elect recommended. Praise Gaya!

The very same phenomenon is at work when people mention things like the murder of Arizona rancher Robert Krentz by illegal aliens. Many absolutely can’t process this information and exhibit an evasive response when confronted with it. They literally dodge anyone who mentions it. Like Pavlov’s dogs, they have been conditioned. They dare not entertain such dissident thoughts, let alone discuss the issue with anyone. They not only feel guilty about having this information, because it contradicts the received wisdom that all Hispanics are victims and we evil rich Americans are their tormenters and are responsible for all ills that befall them. They also are deathly afraid that an activist could be lurking somewhere waiting to pounce on them for the indiscretion of stating a simple fact. None of these Hispanics who sin, so goes the narrative, can be held accountable for their actions. If they smuggle drugs, it is our fault because some Americans use drugs. If they rape someone it is because American women are racists who deny them love. If they join violent gangs it is because we xenophobic Anglos reject them and their language, forcing them to seek solace among their own kind.

I hope and pray I am wrong, but I am slowly coming to the conclusion that cognitive dissonance is now an epidemic of such enormous proportions in our country that, if someday Hispanics swept through middle class neighborhoods burning, pillaging, raping, murdering and shouting racial slurs against whites and blacks alike, a sizeable proportion of the residents of these neighborhoods would actually feel guilty about being “rich” and white (no matter that the Hispanics hated the blacks as well) and would ask: Where have we gone wrong? What can we do to show them we are their friends?

If my suspicions about that are correct, this could be the end of the line.