Syrians Resist US Interventionism

Syrians Resist US Interventionism

 

by Daniel McAdams

Ex: http://lewrockwell.com/

Lost in the lurid and pornographic reporting of the "horrors" of the Syrian government resisting a Turkish/US/Mossad-led insurrection is the fact that the vast majority of the Syrian population, by now experienced in the difficult art of balancing competing interests in the pursuit of peace, are disgusted by the undisguised interventionism of the US administration on behalf of the Muslim Brotherhood and other extremist elements engaging in a brutal and bloody battle against the relatively inclusive and secular regime of the certainly far from perfect mild mannered eye doctor, Assad. So the Western press will present today's news that the average Syrian registers with a rotten tomato shower his opposition to the US ambassador's overt interventionism on behalf of foreign-backed armed rebels seeking to overthrow the secular Assad regime with a sneer to signal how horrible and oppressive the regime is and how illegitimate its supporters are. Who the hell has the right to resist the US-funded Arab Spring???

Lenin smiles on the US/Israeli/Turkish strategy of promoting extremism and anti-Christianity in Syria to justify further US interventionism and possibly Israeli/Turkish land invasion. And what is most vulgar and troubling is to see organizations claiming an antiwar orientation nevertheless reporting uncritically unsubstantiated claims of one-sided regime attacks against "protestors" without even mentioning in passing the armed and murderous attacks of same opposition groups on the regime and any civilian supporter in bullets-range. It is pure post-modern "democracy promotion" a la Peter Ackerman and the color revolution crowd (why do the foreign news cameras turn off once the glorious people's revolutions produce a result so in tune with the desires of the ancien régime? Seen any Tunisia news lately?). By the way, has anyone wondered why Ackerman avoided jail when the superior Milken was held for far too long?

But those of us interested in the kind of freedom and liberty that is set free by truth are also disgusted by the unsubstantiated but nevertheless pornographically lurid reports of this or that "demonstration" wherein a number of security personnel are brutally murdered. And now that the Western intelligence connections of the biggest Arab Spring cheerleader Al-Jazeera are laid bare will anyone begin connecting the dots and question conventional wisdom, or are we more braindead than those under Soviet domination who at least knew that they were fed a steady diet of lies by the regime and embraced mental bulimia as a rational response?

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“Nacida de una ruptura con el pasado (europeo), Norteamérica no puede imaginar un futuro diferente a la línea indefinidamente prolongada de un ‘progreso’ utópico: carece del soporte necesario para tal ’imaginación’. Frente al devenir histórico, Norteamérica vive en un eterno presente, en una sucesión irreversible de momentos presentes que constituyen el cuadro de esa ‘búsqueda de la felicidad’ (pursitit of happiness) a todos garantizada por la Declaración de Independencia.

Su pensamiento implícito consiste en reducir a la unidimensionalidad la tridimensionalidad del tiempo; su objetivo social, en hacer coincidir al máximo de hombres en una misma dimensión de simultaneidad.

El inconsciente norteamericano, como tan a menudo se ha constatado,

se funda en una mística del espacio (la idea de que, más allá de la frontera, siempre hay un espacio a explotar), por oposición a la mística del tiempo. De ahí la importancia de la ‘conquista del espacio’, como sustituto a la ‘conquista del tiempo’ característica de toda cultura tradicional…”

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“Europa” y “Occidente”: dos conceptos antagónicos [Claudio Finzi]

Qué es el antinorteamericanismo? [Roger Garaudy]

La influencia de América en Europa [Thomas Molnar]

El Amblimoron antifascista o la extrema-izquierda pro americana [Claudio Mutti]

Carta a John F. Kennedy [Juan Domingo Perón]

El enemigo americano [Robert Steuckers]

Dinámica histórica del liberalismo: del mercado total al Estado total [Tomislav Sunic]

La colonización sutil: “American Way of Life” y Dinámica Social [Marco Tarchi]

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Défendre la démocratie directe

« Défendre la démocratie directe - Sur quelques arguments antidémocratiques des élites suisses » de Antoine Chollet

Recension d'Yvan Blot

Ex: http://www.polemia.com/

Ce petit livre est fort intéressant. L’auteur est un enseignant de gauche français installé en Suisse qui constate que les nouveaux ennemis de la démocratie directe sont à gauche. En effet, une campagne a lieu actuellement en Suisse pour « encadrer » la démocratie directe accusée de menacer les droits de l’homme ! On reproche à celle-ci les résultats des référendums contre l’adhésion de la Suisse à l’Union européenne, sur l’interdiction de construire des minarets, sur l’expulsion automatique des criminels étrangers notamment. Le premier parti de Suisse, de Christophe Blocher, l’Union démocratique du Centre, vient de lancer une nouvelle initiative populaire pour faire un référendum contre « l’immigration de masse » : l’affiche est sortie et représente des bottes noires en marche en train d’écraser un drapeau suisse : l’image, disponible sur internet est saisissante !

L’auteur ne partage pas du tout les idées de l’Union démocratique du Centre mais néanmoins s’insurge contre les tentatives de réduire les droits politiques des Suisses !

Il note que la démocratie représentative est une escroquerie qui ne permet pas au peuple de s’exprimer. Pour lui, la Révolution française qui a mis en place ces démocraties est un échec complet. Il n’y a de démocratie que directe comme en Suisse. Si les résultats des référendums sont de droite c’est que la Suisse est conservatrice mais ce n’est pas une raison pour donner le pouvoir à des oligarques en supprimant la démocratie directe. Dommage que l’auteur ne cite pas le Liechtenstein où la démocratie directe coexiste fort bien avec la monarchie !

Il fait observer que les arguments des intellectuels de gauche suisse contre la démocratie directe (qui sont aussi ceux des oligarques de droite) peuvent se ramener à quatre :

1. le citoyen est trop ignorant ;
2. le référendum ne doit pas remettre en cause les textes « sacrés » des droits de l’homme ;
3. L’Etat seul a une politique cohérente grâce à la raison des fonctionnaires ; le peuple ne doit pas interférer car il est irrationnel ;
4. L’ordre est la valeur suprême et il faut donc éviter tout conflit ; la démocratie directe est une occasion de soulever des problèmes tabous qui vont créer des conflits.

Pour l’auteur, ces quatre arguments ne sont pas valides.

1. Le citoyen n’a pas toujours la connaissance théorique des sujets comme le fonctionnaire mais il n’est pas ignorant : il a la connaissance vécue, existentielle, des problèmes qui le concernent. C’est pourquoi il a un certain bon sens et apporte des informations que les experts ignorent. C’était déjà le point de vue d’Aristote (dont l’auteur se réclame). Il ne faut donc pas donner le monopole des décisions publiques aux seuls « experts ». Que sait de l’immigration sauvage ou de l’insécurité un expert qui vit dans les beaux quartiers ?
2. Rejeter l’autorité du peuple pour modifier les « textes sacrés » des prétendues démocraties revient à placer le juge au-dessus du citoyen, y compris comme pouvoir constituant. Cela revient aussi à considérer les juges ou experts juristes internationaux comme souverains au-dessus du citoyen. L’auteur estime que ce serait une grave erreur de retirer au citoyen sa responsabilité en le mettant sous la tutelle d’un juge, pire, d’un juge international qui interprétera de façon arbitraire les déclarations des droits de l’homme qui sont des documents flous, donc dangereuses pour les libertés.
3. Le prétendu Etat cohérent est sous la pression constante des intérêts organisés. Le bien commun qui n’est en général pas organisé passe donc après les intérêts particuliers : c’est ce que l’on voit tous les jours. Un bon exemple est l’Islande : les députés et le gouvernement voulaient faire payer le peuple islandais pour les fautes des banquiers islandais endettés auprès de pays étrangers. Par référendum, le peuple islandais a refusé d’être taxé pour payer les fautes de ses banquiers, et il a eu raison !
4. La liberté repose sur la possibilité d’avoir des conflits. Etouffer le conflit par la censure ne crée pas un ordre authentique mais un fossé croissant entre le pays réel et le pays légal. La démocratie directe, en mettant au jour certains conflits, rétablit la liberté d’expression et redonne de la légitimité au pouvoir.

L’auteur montre que la démocratie directe améliore les décisions publiques en apportant l’information vécue des citoyens ; elle maintient la responsabilité de chaque individu au lieu de le mettre sous la tutelle du juge ; elle redonne sa chance au bien commun d’être entendu ; et elle rétablit une certaine liberté d’expression. Elle est donc indispensable dans un Etat qui prétend respecter les libertés et défendre le bien commun.

Yvan Blot
21/09/2011

Antoine Chollet, Défendre la démocratie directe ; sur quelques arguments antidémocratiques des élites suisses, éditeur : Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes, collection Le savoir suisse, mai 2011, 122 pages

Correspondance Polémia – 25/09/2011

„Türken genießen keine Minderheitenrechte“

Ex: http://www.zurzeit.at/

Professor Karl Albrecht Schachtschneider über rechtliche Probleme durch einen möglichen Beitritt der Türkei zur EU

Herr Professor Schachtschneider, immer wieder ist ein baldiger EU-Beitritt der Türkei im Gespräch. Was sind Ihrer Ansicht nach die möglichen Folgen eines EU-Beitritts der Türkei?

Karl Albrecht Schachtschneider: Der Beitritt der Türkei würde die Europäische Union weiter wirtschaftlich überfordern, denn obwohl die Türkei ja durchaus einen gewissen wirtschaftlichen Aufstieg erlebt, ist sie doch immer noch ein sehr armes Land und es würden nicht nur viele Türken in die europäischen Länder kommen, insbesondere nach Deutschland und Österreich, sondern sie würden auch die überzogenen Sozialleistungen in der Europäischen Union in Anspruch nehmen können. Das wird im Wesentlichen eine Sozialwanderung sein, eine Sozialmigration, die für uns nicht mehr zu verkraften ist.

Ganz davon abgesehen, würde es die Zahl der Muslime in der Europäischen Union erheblich erhöhen und damit die islamische Gefahr für Europa verstärken.

Bestehen zusätzlich zu den wirtschaftlichen auch ernsthafte rechtliche Bedenken gegen einen EU-Beitritt?

Schachtschneider: Im Prinzip ist durch die Kopenhagener Kriterien der Weg zu einem EU-Beitritt für die Türkei geebnet, wenn sie die Bedingungen der Kriterien erfüllt. Damit ist aber noch kein Anspruch begründet, auch wirklich Mitglied zu werden. Das verlangt vor allem die politische Entscheidung aller 27 Mitgliedsstaaten. Alle EU-Staaten müssen dem Beitritt der Türken zustimmen.

Darüber hinaus müssen auch die europäischen Organe ihre Zustimmung erklären, hier im Wesentlichen das Europäische Parlament und der Rat. Jeder Mitgliedstaat der Europäischen Union ist frei darin, die Aufnahme der Türkei zu befürworten oder abzulehnen. Die Verlobung durch den Kopenhagener Beschluß ist nicht schon die Eheschließung. Eine Verlobung muß nicht zur Ehe führen und sollte es in diesem Fall auch nicht! Rechtlich muß auch über den Europa-Begriff diskutiert werden, bevor eine Aufnahme der Türkei möglich ist. Die Türkei gehört mit einem ganz kleinen Teil, zu Europa. Die Türkei ist ein Teil Asiens. Die EU will Europa miteinander verbinden, aber nicht die ganze Welt, auch nicht den Nahen Osten mit Israel und die nordafrikanischen Staaten, wie das propagiert wird.

Herr Professor, wie bewerten Sie den Einfluß und die rechtliche Stellung des Islam in Mitteleuropa derzeit?

Schachtschneider: Der Einfluß des Islam in Mitteleuropa ist tatsächlich sehr groß. Er ist vor allem durch das Mißverständnis der sogenannten Religionsfreiheit so groß geworden. Dem Islam sind durch dieses Mißverständnis die Tore weit geöffnet.

Das Hauptproblem ist, daß es diese Religionsfreiheit, nämlich zu leben und zu handeln, wie es die Religion gebietet, so das Verständnis des Bundesverfassungsgerichts Deutschlands, gar nicht gibt. In keinem Menschenrechtskatalog, in keinem Grundrechtskatalog ist eine solche Freiheit geschützt. Geregelt ist vielmehr eine Glaubensfreiheit. Diese Glaubensfreiheit kann man keinem Menschen nehmen. Eine Bekenntnisfreiheit – die gerne als „Bekennensfreiheit“ mißverstanden wird, nämlich daß man durch sein Leben und Handeln seine Religion bekennen kann, ein solches Grundrecht gibt es nicht.

Bekenntnisfreiheit heißt, daß man das jeweilige Glaubensbekenntnis frei wählen kann. Etwa das katholische oder das protestantische oder auch ein anderes Bekenntnis, wie auch eine andere Weltanschauung. Das kann einem niemand nehmen, das sind innere Glaubensfragen, Gedankendinge. Aber das Grundrecht der ungestörten Religionsausübung im täglichen Handeln ist scharf eingeschränkt durch den Vorrang der staatlichen Gesetze. Jedenfalls in Deutschland. Das wird in Österreich nicht anders ein. Die Säkularisierung des Politischen ist die Bedingung des Religionspluralismus. Das Politische hat den klaren Vorrang vor dem Religiösen und es gibt kein Grundrecht, die Politik einer Religion zu unterwerfen oder die Politik an der eigenen Religion auszurichten, etwa gar eine Theokratie aufzubauen. Ein solches Grundrecht ist nirgends gewährleistet und würde die entscheidende Errungenschaft Europas aufheben, nämlich die Säkularität des Politischen und des Religiösen. Und jedermann weiß, daß der Islam die Säkularität nicht akzeptiert. Der Islam ist ein politisches System, daß eben auch religiös begründet ist. Aus diesem Grunde halte ich den Islam mit unseren Verfassungstexten und unseren Verfassungen für nicht vereinbar, keinesfalls mit der freiheitlichen demokratischen Grundordnung. Ich habe das in meinem Buch, „Grenzen der Religionsfreiheit am Beispiel des Islam“, näher dargelegt.

Was halten Sie von den Forderungen von Ministerpräsident Recep Erdogan nach umfassenden Minderheitenrechten der türkischen Einwanderer in Deutschland?

Schachtschneider: Auch die Türken, die in Deutschland leben, die Muslime in Deutschland, mögen ihren Glauben haben und mögen ihr Bekenntnis haben. Sie können aber nicht besondere Rechte beanspruchen.

Für sie gelten die allgemeinen Gesetze, die für alle Menschen in einem Rechtssystem gemacht sind. Auch die Muslime müssen sich diesen Gesetzen fügen. Irgendeine Privilegierung einer Bevölkerungsgruppe wegen der Religion kommt nicht in Frage, genausowenig übrigens für Katholiken und Protestanten oder allen anderen Religionen. So stark ist das vermeintliche Grundrecht der Religionsfreiheit eben nicht, weil es ein solches Grundrecht überhaupt nicht gibt. Die Religionsausübung wird freilich im Rahmen der allgemeinen Gesetze geschützt und gefördert. Politische Sonderrechte geben die Religionsgrundrechte nicht her, nicht einmal das Recht, religiös orientiert zu wählen, um die Politik auf die eigene Religion auszurichten. Bei den Wahlen geht es um die allgemeine Freiheit, die durch die Gesetze verwirklicht werden soll.

Derartige Minderheitenrechte sind also grundsätzlich abzulehnen. Es sind den Türken und Muslimen aber auch keine Volksgruppenminderheitenrechte einzuräumen, wie sie etwa die Dänen in Schleswig-Hohlstein oder andere anerkannte Minderheiten haben. Die Türken und Muslime gibt es überall in Deutschland und sie sind inzwischen ein Teil der Bevölkerung geworden und müssen sich somit auch den Gesetzen Deutschlands und Österreichs unterwerfen. Da gibt es keinerlei Zweifel!

Das Gespräch führte Matthias Hellner.

Franck ABED reçoit Yvan Blot

Franck ABED reçoit Yvan Blot 

Eustace Mullins e i segreti del poeta

Washington DC – primavera del 1949, St. Elizabeths Hospital in una camera del Mental Health Department un illustre “ospite”: Ezra Pound

di Gian Paolo Pucciarelli

Ex: http://www.rinascita.eu/

Eustace Mullins ha un rispettabile impiego alla Library of Congress, una laurea alla Washington University e un vivo interesse per le avanguardie europee del primo Novecento.
Lo attraggono i dipinti di Picasso e di Kandinski e in genere il Modernismo.
La Biblioteca del Congresso è la più grande del mondo (ventotto milioni di volumi).
Monumentale compendio dell’intero scibile umano e (con qualche disagio) campionario assortito di crisi e fulgori della cultura occidentale. Di quest’ultima un semplice bibliotecario può comprendere ambiguità e contraddizioni, a stento nascoste sotto il peso dell’architettura neoclassica, della tradizione liberale e della memoria di un presidente.
L’imponente Jefferson Building, appunto. E tutto quello che c’è dentro.
Ubicazione: 101 Independence Avenue – Washington – DC, qualche minuto a piedi dalla Casa Bianca, mezz’ora d’autobus e due secoli d’inutile fuga dall’oscurantismo per raggiungere il 1100 dell’Alabama Avenue e il… “Nido del Cuculo”.
La storia dei manicomi, vero o falsa che sia, lascia concrete tracce d’archetipi. Uno di questi si trova su una lieve altura, in direzione sud-est, quasi alla confluenza del Potomac con l’Anacostia.
Il punto in cui sostano gli uccelli migratori in cerca della giusta rotta e sbagliano… nido.
Ottanta piedi d’altezza, linee tardogotiche in segno d’austerità e non trascorsi orrori, sovrapposti ai tanti frantumi del sogno americano, in modo che ne risulti un sinistro edificio. (L’ispirazione è di Milos Foreman che venticinque anni più tardi, tenterà di spiegare le terapie psichiatriche in uso negli States, con buoni appoggi di Upjohns, Roche e le Multinazionali delle benzodiazepine).
Nome ufficiale: St. Elizabeths Hospital.
A causa di ben note imprecisioni nel distinguere la follia individuale da quella collettiva, i cartelli indicatori all’ingresso del nosocomio non recano la scritta “Mental Health”. Anche perché non è bene si sappia che fra gli 8.000 “ospiti” dell’Ospedale sono selezionati i “forensic patients” da sottoporre al test della lobotomia.
I Civils “beneficiano” invece di quotidiane terapie… elettroconvulsive.
Le visite ai ricoverati non sono concesse facilmente. Per via del lezzo di urina secolare misto ai vapori dell’acido ipocloroso, causa di svenimenti e complicazioni polmonari.
Poi perché non sono ancora tanto lontani i tempi in cui Mr. Donovan, già Chief dell’ O.S.S., inaugurò al St. Elizabeth l’uso della scopolamina per farne il siero della verità.
Nel complesso di edifici dell’Alabama Avenue si conservano in formaldeide 1.400 cervelli umani e corre voce che vi sia finito anche quello di Mussolini (ritenuto d’interesse sociale e utile un domani a chi intendesse esaminare le cellule del Capo del Fascismo a scopi didattici, misurando gli effetti dell’irrazionalità delle masse sui lobi cerebrali del Duce).
Eustace Mullins ha appena varcato i cancelli del St. Elizabeth, dopo aver ottenuto il “passi” e non prima di aver svuotato la propria vescica urinaria. Fra tante amenità, recentemente apprese, mentre s’incammina lungo il viale che attraversa un ampio prato fino all’entrata principale, sente l’irrefrenabile impulso di affondare una mano nella tasca dei pantaloni per tastarsi ripetutamente i testicoli. Gesto salvifico, anche se irrispettoso, per la vicinanza di Mrs. Dorothy che, pur mesta e pensosa, con lui procede, affiancandolo.
Poco dopo, preda dell’emozione e degli scongiuri, Mullins si guarda intorno circospetto, avvertendo invisibili presenze di spettri in divisa.
Sono i fantasmi dei 500 Soldati Blu (e Grigi) sepolti nell’area circostante, vittime della guerra civile e dell’oblio. I loro poveri resti giacciono dispersi per sempre nel sottosuolo, mentre ignari tagliaerba, ordinando il prato che li sovrasta senza alcun segno tombale, continuano a cancellarne la memoria. Mullins sembra udire grida di vendetta, soffocate da metri di terra e fastidiosi ronzii di tagliatrici. Ma è solo un’impressione. Non gli resta che accennare un sorriso, sul quale si protende un filo di persistente amarezza.
 
Appare il cartello Mental Health Department. Prima di varcarne l’ingresso, il “visitatore” guarda il lontano e quasi immobile Potomac, da cui sembra levarsi il frastuono delle battaglie combattute novant’anni prima. L’illusione sonora s’interrompe, per via delle voci, quasi irreali, che provengono dall’interno. Mullins, controllando a stento la propria emozione, si affida a Mrs. Dorothy che lo accompagna alla camera di un illustre “ospite” del dipartimento: Ezra Pound.
Fuori, lo struttural-funzionalismo alla Talcott Parsons propone tregua ai conflitti sociali, solidale col noto impostore che raccomanda “Società Aperte” senza far uso di volantini.
Bastano l’abbaglio del benessere e l’abitudine a invisibili moltiplicatori del debito pubblico.
La cella del St. Elizabeth in cui “alloggia” Pound è occupata da un maleodorante giaciglio e un tavolo di metallo, su cui si ammucchiano quaderni di appunti. Lo spazio esiguo della cella consente di ospitarvi il solo recluso, esempio del trattamento riservato alle vittime della moderna inquisizione. Sebbene Mrs. Dorothy cerchi di tranquillizzare Mullins, si fa presto strada in lui la tentazione di concludere la visita con un rapido, liberatorio congedo, ancor prima che si proceda con le presentazioni. L’ambiente è impressionante. Il Poeta del resto, poco incline ai convenevoli, esclusi quelli strettamente di rito, dopo un breve scambio di parole, non sembra propenso al dialogo. Lunghi silenzi, interrotti da brevi domande sullo stato di salute del recluso, restano senza risposta, con evidente imbarazzo di Mullins, che più volte rivolge lo sguardo a Mrs. Dorothy, mentre gli occhi di Pound, seminascosti da cispose sopracciglia, lo fissano con insistenza.
“Lei ha fatto la guerra?” Chiede il Poeta. E la domanda riduce l’impaccio del bibliotecario, ma ne aumenta comunque la sudorazione corporea.
“Sì. Ho prestato servizio nell’US Army, e nel 1945 facevo parte delle Forze di occupazione in Baviera.”
“ Si è mai chiesto perché?”
“Come?”
“Perché?”
“Perché ho servito la mia Patria.”
“No. No. Si è mai chiesto perché è scoppiata la guerra?”
Mullins impallidisce.
“Si è mai chiesto che cosa rappresentano gli enormi e profondi crateri di Hiroshima, scavati e modellati nella calda estate del 1945?”
“Lei sa che cos’è la Federal Reserve Bank?”
“La Banca Centrale degli Stati Uniti.”
“Non esattamente. E’ la responsabile della Prima e della Seconda Guerra Mondiale!”
Mullins ascolta attonito.
Nel linguaggio di Pound ricorre la parola Usura, che vuol dire International Loan System, rete dei prestiti pubblici organizzata dall’Investment Banking, cui spetta il diritto di intermediazione su ogni scambio internazionale. La memoria di un passato non più recente, ma incancellabile, emerge, imperiosa e sgradita, componendo immagini che velocemente si sovrappongono per ricordare ferite inguaribili, inflitte nel profondo dell’animo.
Tempi e luoghi diversi evocano il lungo soggiorno europeo e il passo dell’esule, cadenzato sui ritmi poetici del Cavalcanti e l’Alighieri, per tradurlo nel linguaggio, illuminante e faticoso dei Cantos. Parigi e la Bella Signora Italia, più volte violentata e offesa. Venezia, la Riviera. Il 1945 è anno cruciale. Oltre all’arresto del cittadino americano “traditore” che osò denunciare i responsabili di due guerre mondiali, si segnalava nei pressi del lago di Como, la presenza di un britannico obeso, con l’orecchio all’ascolto di sempre più fievoli eco, disperse nel vuoto, fino alla decisa pressione d’uno scarpone militare straniero; un brindisi di compiacimento per festeggiare la morte di Radio Roma e i trionfi del Dio della Guerra.
Un’analisi retrospettiva è essenziale, dice il Poeta, non certo per convincere chi baratta la libertà con la miopia, ma per… vederci chiaro. La sorpresa non manca, quando Pound afferma che in quella occasione l’agenda di Winston Churchill non valeva meno dei diari di Mussolini e di una cartella marrone, contenente carte compromettenti.
Il premier inglese era solito annotarvi date importanti, usando la matita rossa, come per esempio “Yalta – 4 febbraio 1945”.
Per Dresda preferiva il colore blu, che ricorda le bombe al fosforo, stilando di suo pugno le note su quanto sarebbe avvenuto nella città tedesca undici giorni dopo.
Perché mai la Conferenza economica di Bretton Woods ebbe luogo un mese dopo lo sbarco in Normandia? Una direttiva del “War Production Board”, o un ordine preciso del “Pool” di Banche Internazionali che finanziavano le industrie di armamenti? Chi aveva voluto la guerra, manovrando astutamente “dietro le quinte”? Chi pretendeva il controllo della finanza mondiale?
Mullins è impressionato.
Pound continua…
Provincia di Como, Giulino di Mezzegra e dintorni – 28 aprile 1945
Lo stesso signore sovrappeso, calvo e vestito di scuro, la matita rossa e blu nel taschino, pronta a scrivere luoghi e date, e a tracciare una bella “X” trasversale sopra un nome importante e troppo scomodo. Che cosa fa costui, quando gli Alleati sono alle porte e il Cln combatte la “sua” guerra di ritorsione? Dipinge mediocri acquarelli sulle rive del lago.
Alle creazioni artistiche assistono a breve distanza i suoi attenti custodi, agenti del Secret Operations Executive (SOE).
Fra i cadaveri, che entro poche ore penderanno a testa in giù in Piazzale Loreto, ci sarà anche quello dell’uomo che voleva difendersi e sapeva troppe cose.
Il signore obeso, vestito di scuro, che non conosce le sventure di Mani, l’eretico, né l’orrenda fine di Dioniso, o del Paracleto consolatore, due volte crocifisso, traccia due “X” in rosso su quel nome e riprende a pasticciare acquarelli.
Nelle orecchie risuonano i primi sette versi del Canto Pisano 74, (scritti su carta igienica, all’interno di una gabbia per animali, esposta alle intemperie in aperta campagna).
Lì si apprende che rischia la condanna a morte chiunque raccomandi la “moneta a scadenza” di Silvio Gesell, le teorie monetarie del Maggiore Douglas e osi maledire il “putrido” gold standard e i Banchieri usurai. Ma dal ventoso viale di Washington, dove si aprono i portali della Suprema Corte giunge l’eco della sentenza, nella severa voce di un giudice che si appresta a decretare insanità mentali.
Il “folle” avrebbe fatto anche l’uomo in gabbia per manifestare i tormenti del secolo breve e il grande inganno, di cui il mondo sarebbe stato vittima, senza il bisogno di cercare conferme fra gli appunti di Winston Churchill.
In America intanto i sondaggi già tendono a far crescere l’ottimismo, mentre di fatto la vita continua fra incertezze e paure.
Per altro, nessuno crede più alla casualità di quel che accade in politica. Né alle stime che confermano il prevalere degli “accidentalisti” sui “cospirazionisti”. Ma chi se la sentiva allora di smentire il compianto Presidente, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, autorevole pedina di Wall Street, e quanto egli avrebbe confidato al proprio ambasciatore a Londra, Joseph (Joe) Kennedy: “ In politics nothing happens by chance, if it happens you may bet it was planned that way”?
Nel grande Paese della Libertà si vive intanto l’età dell’ansia, da secoli sofferta e pianificata per i decenni a venire.
“The Age of Anxiety” è, fra l’altro, poema fresco di stampa, che guadagna il Pulitzer, la buona fama di W.H. Auden e crea non pochi equivoci nella società americana del dopoguerra, più incline a ingoiare ansiolitici che a leggere versi (ignorando che le strade della follia spesso non portano al manicomio).
Pound si congeda, pregando Mrs. Dorothy di accompagnare il visitatore all’uscita.
Al commiato, un biglietto di 10 dollari si protende verso Mullins ed è accettato volentieri. Rimborso spese settimanali per svolgere una piccola inchiesta.
Dove? Alla Library of Congress, naturalmente. Lì c’è tutto quello che occorre sapere sul Vreeland-Aldrich Act, e molto altro ancora. Per esempio quanto accadde in una stazione ferroviaria del New Jersey durante una sera d’autunno del 1910.
Il bibliotecario intanto accetta l’incarico che gli costerà, subito dopo, il posto di lavoro.


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Wulf Grimsson’s Loki’s Way

A Band Apart:
Wulf Grimsson’s Loki’s Way

By James J. O'Meara

ex: http://www.counter-currents.com/

 

Wulf Grimsson
Loki’s Way: The Path of the Sorcerer in the Age of Iron ^[2]
Second Edition
Lulu.com, 2011

A few weeks ago I was privileged to receive this unsolicited manuscript, “the result of over 30 years of research, study and practice,” by Wulf Grimsson. I’ve been trying to read, and then review, the contents ever since, but found it difficult. Not because of the writing — Wulf is admirably clear and free of both “scholarly” stodginess and “occult” rigmarole — but precisely because of its dense content of interesting and important ideas. Almost every page gives one something to think about, a source to look up and perhaps reconsider, a inspiration to a new connection made for one’s self.

Why I should have been selected for this privilege is plain from the contents. Loki’s Way covers the whole range of topics we’ve explored on this blog, outside of the more pedestrian political and economic ones, from the Männerbund to mystery traditions to runes, from Nietzsche to Evola to Colin Wilson. I am above all grateful for Wulf’s freeing me from the mild guilt I have felt about all the topics I haven’t done to adequate length, as well as my regret that the late Alisdair Clarke did not live to produce a similar treatise from his path breaking blog, Aryan Futurism ^[3]. Constant Readers of this blog will find Loki’s Way to be essential reading.

But first let Wulf define his subject:

Loki’s Way is an adaptation of the Left Hand Path or sorcery for the Kali Yuga. This tradition has taken many forms throughout the centuries, in the modern age it must be updated to deal with new discoveries in science and psychology. [62]

The last part there also brings up another reason I’ve had trouble writing about this book. I have grave reservations about much of the material in the first third, and thus, as Wulf expresses it here, in a sense his whole project. I would prefer that he take Guénon’s advice and forget about “reconciling” science and Tradition and especially “updating“ the latter by the former. Not only should the process be reversed, judging Science by the timeless principles of Tradition, but the process is necessarily unending, as Science by contrast is the realm of the amorphous and ever-changing, requiring the “synthesis” (really, as Guénon would point out, syncretism) to be redone over and over — although I’m sure the publishers appreciate that!

In particular, I think that Wulf’s claim that “the esoteric is the physiological,” i.e. the “discovery” that what esoteric Tradition has been talking about in guarded language can “now be revealed” (as the New Age publishers would shout) as being techniques for manipulating the endocrine and other bodily systems, is really just a misreading of what Evola among others has described as the starting point that remains when all dogmas and theories have been tested and abandoned, in the alchemical abyss:

But then the individual finds himself confronting his body, which is the fundamental nexus of all the conditions of his state. The consideration of the connection between the ego principle in its double form of thought and deed and corporeality . . . and the transformation of said connection by means of well-defined, practical, and necessary acts, even though they are essentially interior, constitutes the essential core of the Royal Art of the hermetic masters.

Evola adds:

The latter will be directed first of all to the conquest of the principle of immortality, and then to the total stable nature, no longer transitory or deteriorating . . . by which the human manifestation is established within the realm of becoming. (The Hermetic Tradition, pp. 98-99)

Immortality! Yes, indeed:

Loki’s Way gives us the opportunity for individual immortality. It means using the very structures that are in place to satisfy the replicators and which sustain collective immortality for our own benefit. We are literally making a u-turn; the very things that sustain the immortality of the collective must be used against the norm to achieve a permanent, discrete and individual self.

This, of course, is extremely difficult and confronting and accordingly the path to immortality is one that only a few will attempt and less will achieve. It is hard to conceptualize just how radical such a process must be. The best way is to seriously consider that absolutely everything you believe, feel and think could be wrong. Your tastes, choices, preferences, likes and dislikes are all conditioned. Nothing about your life is authentically real. It is as though you were conditioned as a government agent and everything you believe to be true about yourself, your life, your career even your family is simply brainwashing. The truth about the human condition is really that terrifying. Most will find such a scenario so frightening and so personally confronting that it is easier to look away and find fault with this book than to wake up and smell the coffee. (p. 58)

What Evola calls alchemy or The Royal Art Wulf calls . . . sorcery:

What is sorcery? Sorcery is a means by which an individual is able to wretch control of the evolutionary processes to become individually aware and immortal. He or she becomes a discrete, isolate intelligence which exists beyond the confines of the collective processes of eternal re-occurrence. . . . Within Loki’s Way this change is the transformation of human to post human through the focusing of the Will. (p. 61)

The bit about the Will reminds us that Evola was compelled to treat Crowley with some respect, despite his deplorable life and personality, as someone who Knew Things. Wulf goes Evola one better and brings in Crowley explicitly.

Another thing he brings in explicitly, and much to my heart, is the Männerbund, which Evola only relatively briefly discusses. Wulf connects the dots between the historical Männerbund and the esoteric path to individual immortality followed by the elite — in contrast to the common fate in store for the followers of the Vedic “path of the fathers,” Evola’s realm of society beneath the State, my own contrast of Family Values and Wild Boys. For Wulf it’s replicators versus Sorcerers.

The Männerbund or Warrior Band is the origin of the esoteric path, because the latter is, au fond, a battle; which Wulf explains, typically, in equal parts Sufism and Dawkins:

Memetic eugenics is the process whereby we weed out unworthy memes and replace them with memes which will help us evolve. This is what Loki’s Way is all about. We dissolve conditioning and replace it with memes which are conducive to our own process of godmaking. This book is a meme, bringing esoteric traditions in line with science and hopefully awakening the small number of people with the potential to become more than what they are.

Sorcery is found in many ancient traditions. In the Norse we can see that the warrior ethic was an expression of the battle against the flawed aspects of the emotions and psyche to achieve a true Self which would enter Valhalla. The berserker or warrior is a great “type” of the seeker for the Overman. An even more intriguing example is in Sufism where the concept of Jihad is interpreted in a unique way. The outer form of Jihad is a just war but the inner form of Jihad, the more significant, is against the false and flawed aspects of the personality. This model of the internal battle where we wage a sacred war against genes, memes and frames to achieve a Self is an expressive and poetic way to represent our sacred quest. (p. 66)

So, paradoxically, only the Warrior Band, the Group, can provide the context for true individuation:

This is one of the reasons cell, unit or Männerbund work is so significant, it keeps you grounded and stops the fragments of the ego from influencing your worldview. A good group of fellow working sorcerers can bring you to earth quicksmart! (p. 95)

This warrior elite, devoted to realizing a higher principle, is the origin of the Traditional Aryan State, which is oriented to a transcendent principle, in contrast to the common herd and its promiscuous “wants” and “needs” (think: peasant frivolity vs. the Templars) and thus also the social stratification characteristic of Aryan society (p. 72):

The sorcerer and warrior both have the potential to become Overman via different means or by combining paths. Loki’s Way is the modern equivalent of [Georges Dumézil‘s] first function combined with a warrior ethic. It can be applied via the mode of the lone wolf, with a blood brother or in a Männerbund. The teaching level of the sorcerer and warrior is esoteric and left hand path. (p. 74)

At this point, the story takes a turn that may give the average reader a turn himself, but not our Constant Readers:

As organic and social memes are dissolved new forms of sexuality and emotional bonding needs to be created. Every man has androphilic potential, it just has to be activated and directed. Since the transition to the Overman is unnatural and works against the normal evolutionary process which favours reproduction then the focus must be on same-sex bonding. (p. 112)

I am not suggesting that every screaming queen or muscle-mary is a spiritual warrior or engaged in Platonic love. I am suggesting that to cultivate a unique form of androphile friendship based on esoteric ideas is the highest form of relationship and for the Overman naught else will do. (p. 109)

Which leads to chapters discussing both historical traditions from India to the Norsemen, and modern theorists from Edward Carpenter to Hans Blüher to Jack Malebranche. Especially important are his careful dissection of the various “models” of homosexuality that have gone into creating the modern notions of “homosexual” and “gay,” and analyzing their usefulness for the Left Hand Path.

The [Uranian] model was popularised by both Ulrichs and Hirschfeld and ultimately proves wanting. It confuses intersex and transgenderism with homosexuality. While this is not surprising due to the early period of their work it is still a view popular today. It seems an ongoing slur in a culture which devalues women and sees them as “less than men” to associate men who take the passive sexual role as female. It could be argued that this identification has its roots in misogyny and was later fed by Judeo Christian thinking. Many also believe that the idea of seeing a homosexual as a woman in a man’s body led to the medicalization of homosexuality which continued right through to the 1960s.

The Intermediate Sex model [Carpenter] is significant as the shaman, priest and androphile warrior existing outside the normal structures of the society. At the same time I think we need to be careful using the term third or intermediate sex as it infers a state which is not quite one or the other, rather than as one which is both. The masculinist model of Brand and others (it is also found represented in the work of Jack Malebranche today, Androphilia) is appealing and certainly relevant.

Personally I we think we need to develop a new model for our sexuality hence terms like Androphilia and the Männerbund need to be understood in a new way. This is especially significant since we are talking about same-sex relations in terms of a unique goal not as an everyday preference. For the Männerbund androphilia is a special form of “sacred” bond which is expressed between warriors; it is also initiatory.

All comrades have a male and female side and clearly since they are working to transcend human restrictions would have no problems exploring passive or active sex roles. The genders within us, so to speak, represent a great source of power and we may use cross dressing or passive techniques for Seidr work but also have no issue with being warriors for Galdr (active runic sorcery) or even in battle. (p. 129)

I think Wulf is on to something important here. All of the existing ‘scientific’ and especially “historical” models seem skewed against the correct understanding of the telos of esotericism being to transcend by uniting male and female, active and passive, etc.

[P]rohibitions against same-sex relations hence the fear of homosexuality comes from an alien desert religion and has little to do with our traditions. . . . Many of these same phobias were passed down into Christianity and Islam. Many traditions had a very different attitude to same-sex relations prior to their infection by Christianity. Japanese Buddhism had a strong homoerotic element as did the Samurai, it was only Christian missionaries that did away with such traditions. Sadly many of the Eddic references to same-sex relations are negative but that is to be expected considering they have come down through the hands of Christian scribes! (p. 219)

One could add here Daniélou’s similar comments on the importation of Victorian and modernist prejudices into Hinduism, as we have frequently quoted on our own blog.

A careful reading of Guénon would lead one to infer that all “Traditions” are products of the Kali Yuga, early, to be sure, but still of the Dark Age. Therefore one might well find some misunderstandings of the wisdom that was being recompiled after the chaos of the last cyclical turn. Combined with the necessarily elite and secret nature of the esoteric path, it should be no surprise that there should be no adequate understanding of male bonding publicly available even in Traditional sources. Here, at least, we find ourselves agreeing with Wulf’s project to “make anew” Tradition.

Each form of the modern world represents a degeneration of the Perennial Tradition . . . (p. 168)

And quoting Crowley:

Behold! the rituals of the old time are black. Let the evil ones be cast away; let the good ones be purged by the prophet! Then shall this Knowledge go aright. — Liber AL vel Legis II:5

In this verse we are given clear instructions about how to deal with the old schools of magic, esotericism and their formulae. The “old time” are the Older Aeons. These rituals are black, that is they should not be used until reassessed by New Aeon formula. Since most are based on the sacrificial image of the Dying God they must be purified and cleansed.

Those which cannot be changed will be disposed of, those that can be purified can be adapted. As discussed throughout this book, Traditional forms of spirituality must be radically re-examined both in terms of Loki’s Way. Old age fertility rites must be cast away, let the blood brotherhood of Set and Horus Reign!

A close reading of the passages in Evola’s Hermetic Tradition mentioning ‘androgyne’ would show that the process involves the male becoming and then dominating, becoming so as to dominate, the feminine energies, a process he gives the provocative name “philosophical incest.”

Also useful would be a reading of the essay from UR, “Serpentine Wisdom” reprinted in his Introduction to Magic in which Evola, under a pseudonym, mocks those with a “muscle-bound” understanding of power, and advising them to take on the “power of the feminine” (yes, Evola!).

Later chapters feature a fascinating discussion, new to me, of occult warfare via Aeonic Magick and Time Sorcery and the attempts of Evola, Crowley, and even H. P. Lovecraft to tap into eternal principles in order to literally re-create the conditions of the primordial state in our modern age.

The reader may find himself feeling a bit overwhelmed with all this somewhat theoretical discussion. The last third of the book balances this out with several chapters of “Sorcery in Practice,” the “many forms of sorcery and many models for recognizing the associations between our own inner world and that which is beyond” (p. 205) ranging from runes to sexual sorcery.

The reader must have realized by now that no mere blog review could do justice to the contents of this rich and important book. I hope they will have also realized that the solution is to get their hands on this book for themselves. It is essential reading for those in the modern world who would “decide whether to be a nithing or coward or nothing, a member of the herd or crowd or a hero, a warrior, a comrade of the Männerbund” (p. 240).

Source: http://jamesjomeara.blogspot.com/ ^[4]

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