An odyssey to who knows where
By John Twigg
Near the end of the movie Apocalypse Now, the Colonel Kurtz character played by Marlon Brando is heard to utter the phrase "The horror, the horror..." as he is about to be assassinated with a machete by a secret service agent played by Martin Sheen prior to the American Air Force fire-bombing the rebel refuge community Kurtz had built in the Cambodian jungle after abandoning the American side in the Vietnam war.
The movie directed by Francis Ford Coppola and released in 1979 is reputed to be one of the greatest films ever made and it still resonates with meaning; ostensibly it's a remake of the Joseph Conrad novel Heart of Darkness but it's also a metaphor for the predicament facing all of humanity, namely that billions of people could soon be burned alive in a nuclear world war and environmental cataclysm.
The growing imminence of that predicament is epitomized in the sensational war of words yesterday (March 3) between Republican Presidential hopeful Donald Trump and former Republican candidate Mitt Romney, in which Romney gave a 17-minute special speech in which he alleged that an election of Trump would be a disaster because he's so dishonest, corrupt, impulsive and ignorant that his actions as President could trigger a nuclear war and threaten the fate of all humanity (which is my interpretation of his gist).
Then Trump replied with a series of dismissive insults of Romney, that he's a lightweight loser not worth listening to and a hypocrite because (as Trump alleged) Romney previously was so desperate to get Trump's endorsement and money that Romney would have gotten down on his knees and presumably performed fellatio on Trump in order to get it [if you go to see a video of it you can scroll around to find or avoid that passage, and a wire story summary of it all is at the bottom of this file].
Can public discourse on live national television get any worse than that? Well maybe yes, because the real scandals behind it all could be even worse [think of the Pickton pig farm], though the mainstream news media were soon turning their attention to other items such as the news that police may have found O.J. Simpson's murder weapon. [You can see echoes of that media distraction technique in B.C. politics in how SPCA news popped up three times in recent weeks including on the day after the new B.C. budget was released.]
Romney claimed in his speech that if Trump wins the nomination then Hillary Clinton, the likely nominee of the Democratic Party, will more easily win the Presidential election (in November) and Romney said that would be a disaster because she too is too unethical (to choose one word to summarize a litany of details) and that she as President generally would be a danger to the country and the world.
But then it occurred to me that that is exactly how this global cabal of money-changers works!
They really don't care who wins the next U.S. Presidential election because both top choices are already their captives!! [Which is a syndrome we've also seen in Canadian politics prior to the last election.]
Indeed it's quite possible that the outfit behind Hillary, Serco, is helping to engineer Trump's win of the Republican nomination so that she can more assuredly become President because she would win almost by default! [Big money investing in vote-splitting and other such dirty-trick ploys like misleading robocalls have been seen in B.C. and Canadian politics too.]
But if Trump does win the Presidency that would still be okay for Serco because Trump's businesses also are in Serco's network (e.g. hotels and casinos) and anyway Serco's many tentacles are so strong and far-reaching that it/they probably can control events even if a hostile person got elected President.
Serco the unknown silent giant
Serco? If you've never heard of them that's just the way they like, but they're huge; they began modestly as a public-sector services contractor in the United Kingdom but they soon became privatized and diversified and entrenched all around the world, controlling entities such as prisons and airport control towers, and they are now closely allied with the big money financial houses in first London and now New York.Their empire reaches back to the founding of disaster insurance and fire-fighting forces against arson in the dark ages and they went global at the beginning of the 1800s when Great Britain established naval bases, trade routes, Colonial Offices and trading houses all around the world (of which HSBC Hongkong and Shanghai Bank was one of the first and their outpost in British Columbia in 1849 was their last), eventually all becoming parts of the British Commonwealth.
They were and still are arguably the most powerful cabal in the world, stronger than the Italian, Chicago and other mafias (which Serco-connected entities may occasionally work with), stronger than the Roman Catholic church - and stronger even than the U.S. government inside which they have many cells of power right up to the Oval Office (notably via the Small Business (8A) Administration).
If you Google "Serco" or at least read the Wikipedia summary here you will find a seemingly innocuous service provider but for a more fulsome exposee of Serco you should see and search the Abel Danger website http://www.abeldanger.net/ and scroll through the archives section in the lower right which contain numerous references to how Serco and its major shareholders and other associated players including Trump and the Clintons have engineered or participated in and/or benefited from a series of events and calamities including 9/11 [their uninterruptible autopilots steered the planes], MH370 [it went to Diego Garcia!], Katrina [they sabotaged the dykes], Deepwater Horizon [they sabotaged the drill rig] and many more (especially see newsletter issues 2605, 2581 and 2568).
For a list of Serco's subsidiaries watch this video which was posted recently by an American political activist:
(note that exiting this video may not return you to this site)
The music behind that video is the song My Own Prison by the famous alt-rock group Creed, for which the full-length original music video from 1997 can be viewed here and has these lyrics:"My Own Prison"
A court is in session, a verdict is in
No appeal on the docket today
Just my own sin
The walls are cold and pale
The cage made of steel
Screams fill the room
Alone I drop and kneel
Silence now the sound
My breath the only motion around
Demons cluttering around
My face showing no emotion
Shackled by my sentence
Expecting no return
Here there is no penance
My skin begins to burn
(And I said oh) So I held my head up high
Hiding hate that burns inside
Which only fuels their selfish pride
(And I said oh) We're held captive
Out from the sun
A sun that shines on only some
We the meek are all in one
I hear a thunder in the distance
See a vision of a cross
I feel the pain that was given
On that sad day of loss
A lion roars in the darkness
Only he holds the key
A light to free me from my burden
And grant me life eternally
Should have been dead
On a Sunday morning
Banging my head
No time for mourning
Ain't got no time
(And I said oh) So I held my head up high
Hiding hate that burns inside
Which only fuels their selfish pride
(And I said oh) We're held captive
Out from the sun
A sun that shines on only some
We the meek are all in one
[Guitar break]
I cry out to God
Seeking only his decision
Gabriel stands and confirms
I've created my own prison
I cry out to God
Seeking only his decision
Gabriel stands and confirms
I've created my own prison
(And I said oh) So I held my head up high
Hiding hate that burns inside
Which only fuels their selfish pride
(And I said oh) We're held captive
Out from the sun
A sun that shines on only some
We the meek are all in one
(And I said oh) So I held my head up high
Hiding hate that burns inside
Which only fuels their selfish pride
(And I said oh) We're held captive
Out from the sun
A sun that shines on only some
We the meek are all in one
Should've been dead on a Sunday morning
banging my head
No time for mourning
Ain't got no time
Just my own sin
The walls are cold and pale
The cage made of steel
Screams fill the room
Alone I drop and kneel
Silence now the sound
My breath the only motion around
Demons cluttering around
My face showing no emotion
Shackled by my sentence
Expecting no return
Here there is no penance
My skin begins to burn
(And I said oh) So I held my head up high
Hiding hate that burns inside
Which only fuels their selfish pride
(And I said oh) We're held captive
Out from the sun
A sun that shines on only some
We the meek are all in one
I hear a thunder in the distance
See a vision of a cross
I feel the pain that was given
On that sad day of loss
A lion roars in the darkness
Only he holds the key
A light to free me from my burden
And grant me life eternally
Should have been dead
On a Sunday morning
Banging my head
No time for mourning
Ain't got no time
(And I said oh) So I held my head up high
Hiding hate that burns inside
Which only fuels their selfish pride
(And I said oh) We're held captive
Out from the sun
A sun that shines on only some
We the meek are all in one
[Guitar break]
I cry out to God
Seeking only his decision
Gabriel stands and confirms
I've created my own prison
I cry out to God
Seeking only his decision
Gabriel stands and confirms
I've created my own prison
(And I said oh) So I held my head up high
Hiding hate that burns inside
Which only fuels their selfish pride
(And I said oh) We're held captive
Out from the sun
A sun that shines on only some
We the meek are all in one
(And I said oh) So I held my head up high
Hiding hate that burns inside
Which only fuels their selfish pride
(And I said oh) We're held captive
Out from the sun
A sun that shines on only some
We the meek are all in one
Should've been dead on a Sunday morning
banging my head
No time for mourning
Ain't got no time
It should be evident even to someone with only a rudimentary awareness of The Holy Bible that those lyrics are Bible-based, such as the references to the cross and the angel Gabriel, and certainly the singer/songwriter is writing about facing his own demons, but the lyrics overall could also be a metaphor for how all of humanity is facing the choices presented in the Bible, which is suggested by the lines about a lion roaring (Amos 3:8) and a light delivering eternal life, amongst several others including the appeals to God.
Yes I am well aware that many people dislike being presented with evidences from the Bible but really the examples are becoming so obvious now - with the prospect of Donald Trump getting his hands on the nuclear missile codes - that the warnings about that in the Bible should not be dismissed. [No I am not suggesting that Trump personally is in Bible prophecy, only that the human predicament that he's a growing part of is in there clearly and that that predicament includes a foolish (Anglophone) nation becoming controlled by greedy false leaders who tell people with itching ears the things they want to hear.]
And the notion that Hillary would be a better choice actually could be even more dangerous than Trump would be because the track records that she and husband Bill Clinton have had in office are truly dreadful, with sexcapades, murders, bribes, lies, military failures (Benghazi), security failures (using an insecure private email server as Secretary of State), social and economic failures and worse: a Google search of "Bill and Hillary Clinton corruption" turns up hundreds of hits including many articles in reputable mainstream publications.
The evil deeds done by this Serco-Wall Street et al cabal could even include the murder of JonBenet Ramsey, which I believe may have been done or at least aided and abetted by convicted Canadian serial sex murderer Col. Russell Williams who at the time of JonBenet's murder in 1996 could have been piloting the annual NORAD Santa Claus jet flight that originates in Ottawa and terminates in Boulder, Colo. - so he had the break-in skills and sex-pervert motives and maybe the opportunity.
Anyway, the Trump-Clinton conundrum doesn't look like it will be going away anytime soon, and so nor will the world's financial, economic and political dangers, which BTW dwarf the environmental concerns.
European Union in spreading disarray
We see a good example of that now in Europe where the head of the European Union held a news event in Greece to tell migrants from the Middle East to just stay home, implying they are merely economic migrants and not refugees from war and religious persecutions.
“I want to appeal to all potential illegal economic migrants, wherever
you are from — do not come to Europe,” European Council president Donald
Tusk said in Athens. “Do not risk your lives and your money. It is all
for nothing. Greece, (and) any other European country, will no longer be
a transit country.”
Though North Americans generally don't see or hear a lot of what is going in Europe, those who do follow such things as debt structures, unemployment and social unrest know the European Union is a ticking time bomb waiting to explode.
One of the more urgent and imminent challenges to the EU's future will be a referendum on June 23 in the United Kingdom about whether they should stay in or leave the union, but even if the UK stays in the EU it quite likely will deconstruct after the next elections for the German parliament (Bundestag) which will take place no sooner than Aug. 27 and no later than Oct. 22 but in any case probably will see the ouster of Angela Merkel as Chancellor because she and her colleagues have badly mishandled the sudden mass in-migration of more than a million Muslims and others from the Middle East and North Africa.
Meanwhile in Rome the Vatican was fending off more charges of failing to act on old allegations of systemic child sex abuse, in which Cardinal George Pell gave video-link testimony to an Australian Royal Commission investigating how the Catholic Church and other institutions mishandled abuse of children over many decades - a phenomenon also seen in Canada and only now beginning to be addressed.
Though North Americans generally don't see or hear a lot of what is going in Europe, those who do follow such things as debt structures, unemployment and social unrest know the European Union is a ticking time bomb waiting to explode.
One of the more urgent and imminent challenges to the EU's future will be a referendum on June 23 in the United Kingdom about whether they should stay in or leave the union, but even if the UK stays in the EU it quite likely will deconstruct after the next elections for the German parliament (Bundestag) which will take place no sooner than Aug. 27 and no later than Oct. 22 but in any case probably will see the ouster of Angela Merkel as Chancellor because she and her colleagues have badly mishandled the sudden mass in-migration of more than a million Muslims and others from the Middle East and North Africa.
Meanwhile in Rome the Vatican was fending off more charges of failing to act on old allegations of systemic child sex abuse, in which Cardinal George Pell gave video-link testimony to an Australian Royal Commission investigating how the Catholic Church and other institutions mishandled abuse of children over many decades - a phenomenon also seen in Canada and only now beginning to be addressed.
Movies help tell the story
Coincidentally I happened to catch a screening of the new movie Risen, which is a Bible-based epic about a Roman soldier's search for the body of Jesus following His crucifixion and resurrection, which is presented quite effectively and accurately even though it was a relatively low-budget effort filmed in Spain and Malta. If you get a chance to see it, you should because it offers some important insights into the basic plausibility of the whole Bible story, which again I stress involves all of mankind facing a terrible crisis in the end times unless they repent, which repentance is quite unlikely given the politics of Trump vs. Clinton et al, so the fall-back position is to make defensive plans for survivalism in British Columbia and Canada.
And if you still doubt that a crisis of corruption is coming, you probably should see another movie opening soon called Money Monster, starring George Clooney and Julia Roberts and directed by Jody Foster, which from its promotional trailer here appears to be a look at the corruption inherent behind the doors of Wall Street. A profile from Hollywood Reporter can be seen here prior to its May 13 release.
Yes folks, whether you like it or not, this period we are in is - as Jim Morrison of The Doors sang and wrote - The End.
It's a period mentioned hundreds of times in the Bible, from the beginning in Genesis 6:13 ("the end of all flesh") through Matthew 24:14 ("and then shall the end come") to the literal end in Revelation 22:13 ("I am ... the beginning and the end").
Or as the famous Chinese curse says, "May you live in interesting times."
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Below is reprinted for background use only
Trump and Romney exchange tirades
Clash between front-runner, former candidate shows widening Republican rift
“I could’ve said, ‘Mitt, drop to your knees ,’ he would have dropped to his knees.
DONALD TRUMP REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE
DONALD TRUMP REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE
WASHINGTON — Attacked by the previous Republican nominee for president as a vulgar, sexually debased bully unfit for the presidency, Donald Trump responded hours later with a furious string of insults.
Speaking
Thursday at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, former Republican
nominee Mitt Romney says if Republicans choose Donald Trump as their
nominee, ‘the prospects for a safe and prosperous future are greatly
diminished.’
The billionaire front-runner called Mitt Romney a “failed candidate” who
“let us down” after running a “horrible campaign,” and also recalled
meeting with Romney during the U.S. presidential campaign four years
ago. He said Romney begged for his backing.
“I could’ve said, ‘Mitt, drop to your knees,’ he would have dropped to his knees,” Trump said at a rally in Maine on Thursday, adding, “If somebody hits me, I’m going to hit them back harder.”
Indeed, Romney’s extraordinary broadside was a hard hit, too.
“Let me put it plainly, if we Republicans choose Donald Trump as our nominee, the prospects for a safe and prosperous future are greatly diminished,” Romney said Thursday in Salt Lake City. “Dishonesty is Donald Trump’s hallmark.”
Calling Trump a bully who is motivated by greed, Romney asked voters to imagine their children and grandchildren acting like the outspoken former TV reality show host.
Romney said Trump’s plan to let Russia lead the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant was “the most ridiculous and dangerous idea of the entire campaign season,” and urged voters to back any other candidate they believed had the best chance of beating the New York businessman.
“If Donald Trump’s plans were ever implemented, the country would sink into a prolonged recession,” Romney said.
Romney’s speech at the University of Utah comes as many in the party fear that Trump can essentially end the contest if he pulls out victories in Ohio and Florida, two large, battleground states that hold primaries on March 15.
Romney offered a litany of reasons Trump would be bad for the U.S.: Trump’s tariffs would touch off a trade war and kill export jobs; his tax plan would balloon the deficit and national debt; and his plans overall “would be very bad for American workers and for American families.
“After all, this is an individual who mocked a disabled reporter, who attributed a reporter’s questions to her menstrual cycle, who mocked a brilliant rival (over) her appearance, who bragged about his marital affairs, and who laces his public speeches with vulgarity,” Romney said.
“There is dark irony in his boasts of his sexual exploits during the Vietnam War while (Arizona Sen.) John McCain, whom he has mocked, was imprisoned and tortured.”
Nick Clayson, 21, was one of hundreds of people who lined up two hours early to hear Romney speak.
“One of the most disgusting things to me is (Trump’s) refusal to denounce the KKK,” said Clayson, a political science student at Utah State University and registered Republican. “That’s a huge issue for me. If it came down to Clinton or Trump I would want a third-party candidate to enter the race.”
“I could’ve said, ‘Mitt, drop to your knees,’ he would have dropped to his knees,” Trump said at a rally in Maine on Thursday, adding, “If somebody hits me, I’m going to hit them back harder.”
Indeed, Romney’s extraordinary broadside was a hard hit, too.
“Let me put it plainly, if we Republicans choose Donald Trump as our nominee, the prospects for a safe and prosperous future are greatly diminished,” Romney said Thursday in Salt Lake City. “Dishonesty is Donald Trump’s hallmark.”
Calling Trump a bully who is motivated by greed, Romney asked voters to imagine their children and grandchildren acting like the outspoken former TV reality show host.
Romney said Trump’s plan to let Russia lead the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant was “the most ridiculous and dangerous idea of the entire campaign season,” and urged voters to back any other candidate they believed had the best chance of beating the New York businessman.
“If Donald Trump’s plans were ever implemented, the country would sink into a prolonged recession,” Romney said.
Romney’s speech at the University of Utah comes as many in the party fear that Trump can essentially end the contest if he pulls out victories in Ohio and Florida, two large, battleground states that hold primaries on March 15.
Romney offered a litany of reasons Trump would be bad for the U.S.: Trump’s tariffs would touch off a trade war and kill export jobs; his tax plan would balloon the deficit and national debt; and his plans overall “would be very bad for American workers and for American families.
“After all, this is an individual who mocked a disabled reporter, who attributed a reporter’s questions to her menstrual cycle, who mocked a brilliant rival (over) her appearance, who bragged about his marital affairs, and who laces his public speeches with vulgarity,” Romney said.
“There is dark irony in his boasts of his sexual exploits during the Vietnam War while (Arizona Sen.) John McCain, whom he has mocked, was imprisoned and tortured.”
Nick Clayson, 21, was one of hundreds of people who lined up two hours early to hear Romney speak.
“One of the most disgusting things to me is (Trump’s) refusal to denounce the KKK,” said Clayson, a political science student at Utah State University and registered Republican. “That’s a huge issue for me. If it came down to Clinton or Trump I would want a third-party candidate to enter the race.”
Others in the queue flew in from out of town.
“For the first time in my life I might vote for a Democrat if it comes down to Trump,” said Rachel Walston, 37, a financial adviser from North Carolina and registered Republican.
As the party’s 2012 nominee, Romney is the most significant figure in an intensifying effort from the Republican establishment to take down Trump after his primary victories Tuesday, the single biggest day of voting in the Republican race.
Romney said he was not announcing his own candidacy and would not endorse any single candidate.
Instead, he named all three of Trump’s remaining rivals: Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, and Ohio Gov. John Kasich
The back-and-forth between Romney and Trump created the spectacle of the Republican party’s identity crisis playing out in full view. Trump can rightly say his unorthodox candidacy has brought new voters to the polls for the primaries, attracted to his tough talk and promise to “make America great again.”
Romney is viewed as a protector of a Republican establishment that many of Trump’s voters would say has lost touch with their day-to-day concerns. Romney’s own run against U.S. President Barack Obama in 2012 failed, in part, because Romney was painted as a wealthy elitist who benefited from Wall Street ways — the very thing voters in both parties are rebelling against this year.
Romney wasn’t alone Thursday in attacking Trump. Dozens of conservative national security experts warned that Trump was unfit to be commander in chief.
Former Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff and more than 70 others called Trump’s “embrace of the expansive use of torture” inexcusable. They also object to what they say is Trump’s “hateful, anti-Muslim rhetoric.”
Meanwhile, former Republican candidate Chris Christie, who has thrown his support behind Trump, defended his shellshocked expression as he stood behind the Republican frontrunner on Super Tuesday.
“No, I wasn’t being held hostage. No, I wasn’t sitting up there thinking, ‘Oh, my God, what have I done?’ ” Christie said Thursday in New Jersey. “I don’t know what I was supposed to be doing. All these armchair psychiatrists should give it a break.”
Despite Trump’s strong showing Tuesday, he was not yet on track to claim the nomination before the party’s national gathering. He has won 46 per cent of the delegates awarded so far, and he would have to increase that to 51 per cent in the remaining primaries.
Trump has 316 delegates so far, Texas Sen. Cruz 226 and Florida Sen. Rubio, 106. It takes 1,237 delegates to win the party nomination.
On the Democratic side, Clinton was drawing broad support from voters and her party’s leaders.
Rival Bernie Sanders vowed to keep up the fight, though his path to the nomination has narrowed. So far, Clinton has at least 1,005 delegates, Sanders 373. It takes 2,383 Democratic delegates to win.
“For the first time in my life I might vote for a Democrat if it comes down to Trump,” said Rachel Walston, 37, a financial adviser from North Carolina and registered Republican.
As the party’s 2012 nominee, Romney is the most significant figure in an intensifying effort from the Republican establishment to take down Trump after his primary victories Tuesday, the single biggest day of voting in the Republican race.
Romney said he was not announcing his own candidacy and would not endorse any single candidate.
Instead, he named all three of Trump’s remaining rivals: Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, and Ohio Gov. John Kasich
The back-and-forth between Romney and Trump created the spectacle of the Republican party’s identity crisis playing out in full view. Trump can rightly say his unorthodox candidacy has brought new voters to the polls for the primaries, attracted to his tough talk and promise to “make America great again.”
Romney is viewed as a protector of a Republican establishment that many of Trump’s voters would say has lost touch with their day-to-day concerns. Romney’s own run against U.S. President Barack Obama in 2012 failed, in part, because Romney was painted as a wealthy elitist who benefited from Wall Street ways — the very thing voters in both parties are rebelling against this year.
Romney wasn’t alone Thursday in attacking Trump. Dozens of conservative national security experts warned that Trump was unfit to be commander in chief.
Former Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff and more than 70 others called Trump’s “embrace of the expansive use of torture” inexcusable. They also object to what they say is Trump’s “hateful, anti-Muslim rhetoric.”
Meanwhile, former Republican candidate Chris Christie, who has thrown his support behind Trump, defended his shellshocked expression as he stood behind the Republican frontrunner on Super Tuesday.
“No, I wasn’t being held hostage. No, I wasn’t sitting up there thinking, ‘Oh, my God, what have I done?’ ” Christie said Thursday in New Jersey. “I don’t know what I was supposed to be doing. All these armchair psychiatrists should give it a break.”
Despite Trump’s strong showing Tuesday, he was not yet on track to claim the nomination before the party’s national gathering. He has won 46 per cent of the delegates awarded so far, and he would have to increase that to 51 per cent in the remaining primaries.
Trump has 316 delegates so far, Texas Sen. Cruz 226 and Florida Sen. Rubio, 106. It takes 1,237 delegates to win the party nomination.
On the Democratic side, Clinton was drawing broad support from voters and her party’s leaders.
Rival Bernie Sanders vowed to keep up the fight, though his path to the nomination has narrowed. So far, Clinton has at least 1,005 delegates, Sanders 373. It takes 2,383 Democratic delegates to win.
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