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Title: Norway's attacks reveal world of hatred
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Published: Jul 24, 2011
Author: http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opi
Post Date: 2011-07-24 14:26:40 by tom007
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Norway's attacks reveal world of hatred Initial reactions to the attacks in Norway showed a "clash of civilisations" exists, but not in the way many understood. Ahmed Moor Last Modified: 24 Jul 2011 14:40

Listen to this page using ReadSpeaker It is a credit to liberalism in Norway that the country's prime minister did not respond to the attack with fear or vicious speculation [EPA]

The Norwegian terrorist who murdered more than ninety innocent civilians - many of whom were teenagers - did not act alone. Or rather, he acted within a cultural and political context that legitimises his fearful and hate-infested worldview. It is now clear that Anders Behring Breivik was exposed to large amounts of right-wing propaganda. This tragedy underlines the urgency with which normal people around the world must combat fundamentalist nationalists and chauvinists wherever they may be. But it also demonstrates the extent to which reactionary bigotry has infected mainstream thought.

Many reacted to the news from Oslo with wide eyes and a pointed finger. The most animated reactionaries took to the pages of the New York Times comment section to issue sweeping proclamations about the Clash of Civilisations and something called "the cult of death". In many ways, readers were merely reinforcing the paper's woefully editorialised reportage. As Glenn Greenwald helpfully pointed out, the editors of the NYT - America's allegedly liberal newspaper - reserve the word "terrorist" solely for use in conjunction with the word "Muslim".

When news emerged that the perpetrator of the murders - the terrorist - was a man whose religion and skin pigmentation closely resembled those of the editors of the NYT, the story changed. The terrorist became a deranged "Christian extremist" whose tactics clearly mirrored "Al Qaeda's brutality and multiple attacks". In that way, the paper linked the terrorist with Muslims, despite his strong antipathy for them.

Blame for the Western media's panting pursuit of a non-existent Muslim triggerman quickly focused on the feckless, credulous, overeager and inept source of the NYT's journalistic failure. Will McCants - proclaimed by one of his acolytes to be at the top of a "list of five terrorism experts you can trust" - was quickly discredited. In his defence, he only sought to affirm the confirmation bias that he and the editors of the NYT suffer from. The meme that underpins their worldview goes something like this: "Muslims are bad. When bad things happen, Muslims are responsible." This is a mainstream view in the US today; it cuts across party lines.

Shaping both sides of the narrative

That the purported American left maintains this bigoted outlook is an indication of how successful the right has been at constructing the stage upon which public debate is conducted. Two main anti-Muslim talking points are now taken for granted in this country: First, all terrorists in the West are Muslims; second, we are in the midst of a global civilisational war. These are the dual planks upon which Uncle Sam squats in his Afghani outhouse.

Objective sources have done an excellent job of discrediting the first of the two claims that inform the 21st century American experience. The second point however - that we are engaged in a war of civilisations - is one that I agree with. But the combatants are not Islam and the West. Instead, the war is between the normal, sane people of the world and the right-wing zealots who see doom, destruction, hellfire and God's Will at every turn.

Anders Behring Breivik, Mohammed Atta and Baruch Goldstein are all cut from the same rotten cloth. Anwar Al-Awlaki and Glenn Beck - the peddlers of the faith - all share the same core afflictions.

These men are insecure, violently inclined, and illiberal. The outside world scares them. They hate homosexuals and strong women. For them, difference is a source of insecurity. Their values are militarism, conformism, chauvinism and jingoism. Worst of all they seek to pressure us into compliance while they work frantically to destroy themselves - and the rest of us with them.

The war continues

All indications are that the hate-mongers - who are on the same side of this war, irrespective of religion - are winning in America. The unreflective, superficial, wan editors of the NYT are an indication of just how successful the right wing has been at eviscerating the left.

But not all liberals are created equal.

It is a credit to the Norwegian people that their prime minister did not respond to the terror attack with scorched-earth rhetoric or a carpet-bombing campaign. A real liberal with strong principles, he did not succumb to fear or vicious speculation.

Instead, he pledged to strengthen Norwegian democracy. This is what he said shortly after the terrorist attacks: "Our answer is more democracy, more openness to show that we will not be stopped by this kind of violence." His words illustrate the difference between a society that takes liberal principles as a foundation and one that treats them as an inconvenient luxury.

Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg's words make it clear where Norway stands on the global war on right-wing extremism. Where does the US stand?

Ahmed Moor is a Palestinian-American freelance journalist based in Cairo. He was born in the Gaza Strip, Palestine.

The views expressed in this article are the author's own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera's editorial policy.

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#6. To: tom007, christine, wudidiz, farmfriend, CadetD, randge, Kamala, genghis gandhi, IrishThatcherite, all (#0)

It is now clear that Anders Behring Breivik was exposed to large amounts of right-wing ZIONIST propaganda.

There now appears to be a full court press to try and bury the fact that Breivik was a screaming Zionist, who hated Islam as a result of the ZIONIST hate propaganda, and was likely a Fag.

I point out the fact that he was likely a fag because homosexuals are highly unstable and very low toned. They are, sadly, wrapped up in their perverted sexuality and haunted by a multiplicity of demons in their own mind.

So, multiple outlets are now trying to frantically spin away from the apparent facts.

A. The initial Reports in all of the major media outlets was that this had to be the work of muslims thus furthering the implanted image of the hate filled muslim wanting to kill everybody who is not a muslim.

B. When they were called on it the Lamestream PsyOps Media immediately started re-spinning with a new target. NOTICE that at NO TIME have they acknowledged that they were in the wrong about the killer being a muslim and they have produced no corrections nor have they apologized. That would be going against the PsyOp. So those who only get their news sporadically are left with the hate filled muslim image.

C. Now that the spin has been forced to be changed we move on to the new designated Bogeyman (((((shudder))))) Right Wing WHITE Christians. Again furthering the current PsyOp of demonizing the core resistance to the incipient tyranny WHITES of European heritage. Let me make it clear that this is not a matter of RACE but a matter of culture. The white European/Caucasian conservative/libertarian/constitutionalist is one of the major impediments to imposing a world tyranny of, by, and for the Anglo-American Elite of Banksters and Psychiatrists.
I say race is not an issue because it is not. It is the overall higher education level, which allows people to see and digest more complex information in greater volume, and the traditions of the rights of the individual free man and woman. It is the education level and traditions i.e., culture which is really being attacked as this creates a well of resistance.

I have been pointing this out for some time but people seem to miss the point as they get diverted into matters of race. Race is a distraction and a Red Herring. What is under attack in these demonizations of Liberty Minded whites is the fact that they are liberty minded and it is part of our culture to be so and to resist tyranny.

Another thing missed is how much of this is being planned and executed by organized Psychiatry. Much of the war against liberty by the elites is founded upon the materialist philosophies engendered by the existing worldview in the world of formal organized Psychiatry. I could spend quite a while with this pointing it out datum by datum but observe for yourself where the actions are aimed and WHAT they are aimed at. This is all largely being done by mental manipulation through information control i.e., by repeating the same false message over and over and over again to neutralize resistance to tyranny and to marginalize those holding liberty's banner.

The long term objective is obvious and you can see how it has been executed in other areas - the war against smoking is a good one. At one time smoking among adults was perhaps a third of the adult population but then, for whatever reason, a war was launched not against smoking per se but against smokers demonizing them, belittling them, and creating an aura of social unacceptability.

It may simply be that the war against smoking was a test program to refine their tactics before they went after the big game i.e., the liberty minded people of the world so as to make the desire to be free of government tyranny and centralized authority as unpopular and socially unacceptable as smoking has become in some quarters.

I'll leave a few quotes:

"One of the least understood strategies of the world revolution now moving rapidly toward its goal is the use of mind control as a major means of obtaining the consent of the people who will be subjects of the New World Order."
K.M. Heaton, The National Educator

"The re-interpretation and eventually (sic) eradication of the concept of right and wrong which has been the basis of child training, the substitution of intelligent and rational thinking for faith… are the belated objectives of practically all effective psychotherapy. The fact is, that most psychiatrists and psychologists and other respectable people have escaped from these moral chains and are able to observe and think freely."
Dr. G. Brock Chisholm, Co-Founder World Institute of Mental Health, 1945

"...the subject which will be of most importance politically is Mass Psychology.... The populace will not be allowed to know how its convictions were generated. When the technique has been perfected, every government that has been in charge of education for a generation will be able to control its subjects securely without the need of armies or policemen. As yet there is only one country which has succeeded in creating this politician’s paradise."
The Impact of Science on Society by Bertrand Russell

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#14. To: Original_Intent (#6) (Edited)

I'll leave a few quotes:

"One of the least understood strategies of the world revolution now moving rapidly toward its goal is the use of mind control as a major means of obtaining the consent of the people who will be subjects of the New World Order." K.M. Heaton, The National Educator

"The re-interpretation and eventually (sic) eradication of the concept of right and wrong which has been the basis of child training, the substitution of intelligent and rational thinking for faith… are the belated objectives of practically all effective psychotherapy. The fact is, that most psychiatrists and psychologists and other respectable people have escaped from these moral chains and are able to observe and think freely." Dr. G. Brock Chisholm, Co-Founder World Institute of Mental Health, 1945

"...the subject which will be of most importance politically is Mass Psychology.... The populace will not be allowed to know how its convictions were generated. When the technique has been perfected, every government that has been in charge of education for a generation will be able to control its subjects securely without the need of armies or policemen. As yet there is only one country which has succeeded in creating this politician’s paradise." The Impact of Science on Society by Bertrand Russell

Another hot off the presses post, shooting from the hip but hitting all targets!

Thanks for the refreshing blast of brilliance!

Or does the truth seems so shiny only when compared to the industrial waste of propaganda digested automatically while remaining asleep at the wheel of life?

This post blazes with condensed wisdom.

So, when are you going to start your career as an antidote and foil to the paid disinformationalists?

When the ships land?

When the long suppressed truth about our origin, true history and ulitmate purpose in playing the game of life begins to be revealed, as the pieces of the broken shell fall like party hats after New Year' Eve?

When people become desperate, jonesing from the lack of the mediaMatrix propaganda 24x7? When their insular little world of personally-tailored mind control is burst by the first crack of intruding reality and ALL the questions are open questions?

You have done the training (mostly self-training)!

Be ready to fire your intellect at will!

(seriously!)

HighLairEon  posted on  2011-07-24   22:12:52 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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#15. To: HighLairEon (#14)

Thank you for the kind words.

I'm a guerilla warrior. Every now and then I'll have a post go viral and that is more effective than any amount of Lamestream Media coverage.

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